Genesis 38:16-30 He went over to her by the road and said, "Please come, let me sleep with you," for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me for sleeping with you?"

NHEB⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁶ He went over to her by the road and said, "Please come, let me sleep with you," for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me for sleeping with you?" ¹⁷ He said, "I will send you a young goat from the flock." She said, "Will you give me something as a guarantee until you send it?" ¹⁸ He said, "What kind of guarantee should I give you?" She replied, "Your signet and your cord and your staff that is in your hand." So he gave them to her, and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him. ¹⁹ And she got up and left, and took off her veil, and put on her widowʼs clothing. ²⁰ Judah sent the young goat by his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the guarantee back from the womanʼs hand, but he did not find her. ²¹ Then he asked the men of the place, saying, "Where is the prostitute that was at Enaim by the road?" They said, "There has been no prostitute here." ²² He returned to Judah, and said, "I havenʼt found her; and also the men of the place said, 'There has been no prostitute here.'" ²³ Judah said, "Let her keep the things, lest we be publicly shamed. Look, I sent this young goat, but you did not find her." ²⁴ Now it happened about three months later that Judah was told, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has turned to prostitution, and now, look, she is pregnant by prostitution." Judah said, "Bring her out, and let her be burned." ²⁵ When she was brought out, she sent word to her father-in-law, saying, "By the man who owns these I am pregnant." She also said, “Please discern whose these are—the signet, and the cord, and the staff." ²⁶ Then Judah recognized them, and said, "She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah." He did not sleep with her again. ²⁷ It happened when it was time for her to give birth, that look, there were twins in her womb. ²⁸ As she was in labor, one put out a hand, and the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his hand, saying, "This one came out first." ²⁹ It happened, as he drew back his hand, that look, his brother came out, and she said, "How did you break through?" So he was named Perez. ³⁰ Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on his hand, so he was named Zerah.