8
And Judah said unto Onan, "Go in unto thy brother's wife and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother."
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And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.
10
And the thing which he did displeased the LORD; therefore He slew him also.
11
Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow at thy father's house, until Shelah my son is grown"; for he said, "Lest perhaps he die also, as his brethren did." And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.
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And in process of time, the daughter of Shua, Judah's wife, died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
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And it was told Tamar, saying, "Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnah to shear his sheep."
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And she put her widow's garments off from her and covered herself with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him as wife.
15
When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot, because she had covered her face.
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And he turned unto her on the wayside and said, "Come, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee" (for he knew not that she was his daughter-in-law). And she said, "What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?"
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And he said, "I will send thee a kid from the flock." And she said, "Wilt thou give me a pledge until thou send it?"
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And he said, "What pledge shall I give thee?" And she said, "Thy signet and thy bracelets and thy staff that is in thine hand." And he gave it to her and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.