8 Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.”e 9 But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother. 10 What he did was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death also.f

11 Judah then said to his daughter-in-lawg Tamar,h “Live as a widow in your father’s householdi until my son Shelahj grows up.”k For he thought, “He may die too, just like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s household.

12 After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua,l died. When Judah had recovered from his grief, he went up to Timnah,m to the men who were shearing his sheep,n and his friend Hirah the Adullamiteo went with him.

13 When Tamarp was told, “Your father-in-law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,”q 14 she took off her widow’s clothes,r covered herself with a veils to disguise herself, and then sat downt at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah.u For she saw that, though Shelahv had now grown up, she had not been given to him as his wife.