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Genesis 38 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Gen 38:1

Gen 38:1It happened at that time, that Yehudah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain `Adullami, whose name was Hirah.

Gen 38:2

Gen 38:2Yehudah saw there a daughter of a certain Kana`ani whose name was Shu`a. He took her, and went in to her.

Gen 38:3

Gen 38:3She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him `Er.

Gen 38:4

Gen 38:4She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan.

Gen 38:5

Gen 38:5She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelach: and he was at Keziv, when she bore him.

Gen 38:6

Gen 38:6Yehudah took a wife for `Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

Gen 38:7

Gen 38:7`Er, Yehudah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD. The LORD killed him.

Gen 38:8

Gen 38:8Yehudah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother."

Gen 38:9

Gen 38:9Onan knew that the seed wouldn't be his; and it happened, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.

Gen 38:10

Gen 38:10The thing which he did was evil in the sight of the LORD, and he killed him also.

Gen 38:11

Gen 38:11Then Yehudah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, until Shelach, my son, is grown up;" for he said, "Lest he also die, like his brothers." Tamar went and lived in her father's house.

Gen 38:12

Gen 38:12After many days, Shu`a's daughter, the wife of Yehudah, died. Yehudah was comforted, and went up to his sheep-shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the `Adullami.

Gen 38:13

Gen 38:13It was told Tamar, saying, "Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."

Gen 38:14

Gen 38:14She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of `Enayim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelach was grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife.

Gen 38:15

Gen 38:15When Yehudah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

Gen 38:16

Gen 38:16He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you:" for he didn't know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"

Gen 38:17

Gen 38:17He said, "I will send you a kid of the goats from the flock." She said, "Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?"

Gen 38:18

Gen 38:18He said, "What pledge will I give you?" She said, "Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand." He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.

Gen 38:19

Gen 38:19She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

Gen 38:20

Gen 38:20Yehudah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend, the `Adullami, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, but he didn't find her.

Gen 38:21

Gen 38:21Then he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is the prostitute, that was at `Enayim by the road?" They said, "There has been no prostitute here."

Gen 38:22

Gen 38:22He returned to Yehudah, and said, "I haven't found her; and also the men of the place said, 'There has been no prostitute here.'"

Gen 38:23

Gen 38:23Yehudah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this kid, and you haven't found her."

Gen 38:24

Gen 38:24It happened about three months later, that it was told Yehudah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." Yehudah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."

Gen 38:25

Gen 38:25When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, "By the man, whose these are, I am with child." She also said, "Please discern whose are these - the signet, and the cords, and the staff."

Gen 38:26

Gen 38:26Yehudah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous than I, because I didn't give her to Shelach, my son." He knew her again no more.

Gen 38:27

Gen 38:27It happened in the time of her travail, that behold, twins were in her womb.

Gen 38:28

Gen 38:28It happened, when she travailed, that one put out a hand: and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This came out first."

Gen 38:29

Gen 38:29It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out, and she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?" Therefore his name was called Peretz.

Gen 38:30

Gen 38:30Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerach.
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