¹³ And it was told Tamar, saying, “Look, your father-in-law is going up ^(A)to Timnah to shear his sheep.” ¹⁴ So she took off her widow’s garments, covered herself with a veil and wrapped herself, and ^(B)sat in an open place which was on the way to Timnah; for she saw ^(C)that Shelah was grown, and she was not given to him as a wife. ¹⁵ When Judah saw her, he thought she was a harlot, because she had covered her face. ¹⁶ Then he turned to her by the way, and said, “Please let me come in to you”; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law.

So she said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”

¹⁷ And he said, ^(D)“I will send a young goat from the flock.”

So she said, ^(E)“Will you give me a pledge till you send it?”

¹⁸ Then he said, “What pledge shall I give you?”

So she said, ^(F)“Your signet and cord, and your staff that is in your hand.” Then he gave them to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him.

²⁴ And it came to pass, about three months after, that Judah was told, saying, “Tamar your daughter-in-law has ^(A)played the harlot; furthermore she is ^[a]with child by harlotry.”

So Judah said, “Bring her out ^(B)and let her be burned!”

²⁵ When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “By the man to whom these belong, I am with child.” And she said, ^(C)“Please determine whose these are—the signet and cord, and staff.”

²⁶ So Judah ^(D)acknowledged them and said, ^(E)“She has been more righteous than I, because ^(F)I did not give her to Shelah my son.” And he ^(G)never knew her again.