13 When Tamar(A) was told, “Your father-in-law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,”(B) 14 she took off her widow’s clothes,(C) covered herself with a veil(D) to disguise herself, and then sat down(E) at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah.(F) For she saw that, though Shelah(G) had now grown up, she had not been given to him as his wife.

15 When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute,(H) for she had covered her face. 16 Not realizing(I) that she was his daughter-in-law,(J) he went over to her by the roadside and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.”(K)

“And what will you give me to sleep with you?”(L) she asked.

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