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    "language": "en",
    "book": "genesis-woh",
    "chapter": 38
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    "n": 38,
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    "title": "Genesis 38 — Yehudah and Tamar: the levirate failure, the pledge, and the birth of Peretz and Zerach",
    "translation": {"track":"translation","version":"1.0.0","sourceText":"Tanach with Ta'amei Hamikra (Westminster Leningrad)","sourceLicense":"Public Domain","sourceUrl":"http://www.tanach.us/Tanach.xml","sourceAccessedVia":"sefaria.org/api/v3/texts/Genesis.38","glossaryVersion":"2.36.0","overlayGlossaryVersion":"1.6.0","modelDrafts":["claude-opus-4-7 (translator)"],"editor":"claude-opus-4-7 (editor)","reviewer":"zarazinsfuss","reviewedAt":"2026-05-29T11:30:25Z","status":"stable","reviewerReport":{"reviewer":"claude-opus-4-7 acting as woh-reviewer","reviewedAt":"2026-05-29T11:30:25Z","verdicts":[{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:1","status":"approve","reasoning":"Re-parsed: va-yered Yehudah me-et echav, va-yet ad ish Adullami. ASV-baseline narrative frame; Adullami and Hirah transliterated per convention. No divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:2","status":"approve","reasoning":"bat-ish Kena'ani u-shemo Shua, va-yiqqacheha va-yavo eleha verified; ASV-baseline 'took her, and went in unto her' is exact. Kena'anite/Shua transliterated."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:3","status":"approve","reasoning":"va-tahar va-teled ben, va-yiqra et-shemo Er. Masculine va-yiqra ('he called') correctly rendered; Er transliterated."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:4","status":"approve","reasoning":"va-tahar od ... va-tiqra ('she called') correctly distinguished from v 3's masculine form; Onan transliterated."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:5","status":"approve","reasoning":"va-tosef od va-teled; ve-hayah bi-Khziv be-lidtah oto. 'he was at Khziv' renders the ambiguous subject as ASV does; Shelah/Khziv transliterated."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:6","status":"approve","reasoning":"va-yiqqach Yehudah ishah le-Er bekhoro u-shemah Tamar. Exact; Tamar transliterated."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:7","status":"approve","citations":["Stable Genesis corpus convention (chs 15:1, 18:1, 22:11, 28:13); WoH proper-name transliteration convention"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed ra be-eynei YHWH va-yemitehu YHWH. 'YHWH' for the Tetragrammaton is independently confirmed against the stable corpus convention (chs 15, 18, 22, 28 and prior occurrences); the brief's 'Yahweh' is properly deferred to a future corpus-wide pass. Convention call sound."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:8","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. ybm; BDB p. 386; TDOT V:367-373; Sarna JPS Genesis pp. 266-267; Westbrook, Property and the Family in Biblical Law 1991; Deut 25:5-10; Ruth 4"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed bo el-eshet achikha ve-yabbem otah ve-haqem zera le-achikha: ve-yabbem is the denominative Piel of y-b-m, the technical levirate verb. ASV periphrasis 'perform the duty of a husband's brother' correctly conveys a duty, not ordinary marriage; 'seed' preserves the repeating lexeme. inferred (not direct) calibration on the central yibbum entry is defensible — the surface keeps the periphrasis while the substance is the institutional reading."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:9","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. shachat (Piel); BDB pp. 1007-1008; Sarna JPS Genesis p. 267; Speiser AB Genesis p. 300"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed ve-shichet artzah le-vilti netan zera le-achiv: shichet is Piel of sh-ch-t ('ruin/destroy'), object unexpressed — genuine euphemism. ASV-baseline 'spilled it on the ground' is the established decorous rendering; the shichet/haqem contrast is correctly carried in apparatus, not surfaced."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:10","status":"approve","citations":["Stable Genesis corpus convention; cf. v 7 verdict"],"reasoning":"va-yera be-eynei YHWH asher asah va-yamet gam-oto. Echo of v 7's ra be-eynei YHWH correctly noted. 'YHWH' per confirmed convention."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:11","status":"approve","reasoning":"shevi almanah beit-avikh ad-yigdal Shelah beni ... pen-yamut gam-hu ke-echav. ASV-baseline exact; Shelah transliterated."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:12","status":"approve","reasoning":"va-yirbu ha-yamim va-tamat bat-Shua ... va-yinnachem ... va-ya'al al-gozezei tzono. 'in process of time' / 'sheepshearers' ASV-baseline; Hirah/Timnah/Adullamite transliterated."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:13","status":"approve","reasoning":"va-yuggad le-Tamar ... chamikh oleh Timnatah la-goz tzono. ASV-baseline 'thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnah to shear his sheep' exact."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:14","status":"approve","citations":["Alter, Five Books of Moses pp. 217-218; Sarna JPS Genesis p. 268; cf. Josh 15:34 (Enam)"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed va-tesev be-fetach Einayim. Einayim correctly treated as toponym (= Enam, Josh 15:34) and transliterated; the dual-of-ayin 'opening of eyes' pun is left latent in apparatus, not surfaced — exactly the mainstream handling (Sarna, Alter note the wordplay without dissolving the place-name). tza'if 'veil' and tit'allaf 'wrapped' ASV-baseline. No leakage."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:15","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. z-n-h; BDB pp. 275-277; Sarna JPS Genesis pp. 263-271; central entry zonah-prostitute-status-vocabulary-cross-corpus"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed va-yachsheveha le-zonah ki kissetah paneha. zonah (Qal participle of z-n-h) = 'prostitute', the narrator's word; surface correctly holds 'prostitute' and the deliberate shift to qedeshah (vv 21-22) is preserved by NOT harmonizing. The zonah central-entry appliesTo extension to 38:15 is correct (its rationale already named this verse — scope-formalization, not a new decision)."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:16","status":"approve","reasoning":"va-yet eleha el-ha-derekh ... havah-na avo elayikh ki lo yada ki kallato hi. ASV-baseline; the dramatic-irony 'he knew not that she was his daughter-in-law' is in the source, not added."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:17","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. eravon; overlay entry eravon-pledge-triad-signet-cord-staff; cf. arrabon BDAG"],"reasoning":"anokhi ashallach gedi-izzim ... im-titten eravon ad shalchekha. eravon ('pledge') is a genuine commercial-legal term; ASV-baseline 'pledge' kept. The gedi-izzim / se'ir-izzim measure-for-measure note is apparatus-only, correctly."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:18","status":"approve","citations":["Speiser AB Genesis p. 299; Sarna JPS Genesis pp. 268-269; HALOT s.vv. chotam, patil, matteh"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed chotamkha u-fetilekha u-mattekha asher be-yadekha. chotam (signet), petil (cord), matteh (staff) — the personal-identity triad. ASV-baseline 'thy signet and thy cord, and thy staff' exact; pledge-function and seal-on-cord identification in apparatus."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:19","status":"approve","reasoning":"va-takom va-telekh va-tasar tze'ifah ... va-tilbash bigdei almenutah. ASV-baseline exact; resumes widow's garments — verbatim frame inversion of v 14."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:20","status":"approve","reasoning":"va-yishlach Yehudah et-gedi ha-izzim be-yad re'ehu ha-Adullami laqachat ha-eravon ... ve-lo metza'ah. ASV-baseline 'but he found her not' exact."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:21","status":"approve","citations":["Budin, The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity 2008; Westenholz HTR 82 (1989) 245-265; Gruber UF 18 (1986) 133-148; Bird, Missing Persons 1997; Speiser AB Genesis p. 300; HALOT/BDB p. 873 s.v. qadesh/qedeshah"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed ayyeh ha-qedeshah hi va-Einayim al-ha-darekh ... lo haytah va-zeh qedeshah. qedeshah (fem. agent-noun from q-d-sh) correctly TRANSLITERATED on the surface, preserving the deliberate zonah->qedeshah shift without adjudicating the contested 'sacred prostitution' question. Verified the central entry documents BOTH the traditional cultic reading (Albright/Speiser; Deut 23:18-19, Hos 4:14, the Kings reform-notices, Herodotus 1.199/Lucian) AND the revisionist denial (Budin 2008; Westenholz HTR 82; Gruber UF 18; Bird 1997; Frymer-Kensky 1992) even-handedly, surface not adjudicating. inferred (not direct, not speculative) calibration is correct."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:22","status":"approve","citations":["See v 21; central entry qedeshah-consecrated-woman-sacred-prostitution-crux"],"reasoning":"va-yashav el-Yehudah ... lo haytah va-zeh qedeshah. qedeshah transliterated again; townsmen repeat Hirah's word, not the narrator's zonah — the vocabulary-shift correctly preserved through transliteration."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:23","status":"approve","reasoning":"tiqqach-lah pen nihyeh la-vuz ... ve-attah lo metzatah. ASV-baseline 'lest we be put to shame' exact."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:24","status":"approve","citations":["Central entry zonah-prostitute-status-vocabulary-cross-corpus; HALOT s.v. z-n-h; Lev 20:14, 21:9 (burning penalty)"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed zantah Tamar kallatekha ve-gam hinneh harah li-znunim ... hotzi'uha ve-tissaref. The finite zantah and abstract li-znunim are z-n-h forms; ASV-baseline 'played the harlot'/'by harlotry' correctly kept distinct from the v 15 substantive participle 'prostitute'. The zonah-entry appliesTo extension to 38:24 is correct. tissaref (Niphal of saraf, burning penalty) ASV-baseline, uncontested — no entry needed (Lev 20:14; 21:9)."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:25","status":"approve","citations":["Alter, The Art of Biblical Narrative ch. 1; Goldin JBL 96 (1977) 27-44; Sarna JPS Genesis p. 270; overlay entries haker-na-tamar-recognition-gen38 + haker-na-nakar-recognition-motif"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed haker-na le-mi ha-chotemet ve-ha-petilim ve-ha-matteh ha-elleh. haker-na (Hiphil of nakar) is the deliberate sibling to Gen 37:32. Verified haker-na-tamar-recognition-gen38 is a GENUINE separate sibling entry (NOT an appliesTo-extension of the Gen 37 entry); the bidirectional cross-reference resolves both ways in prose — the Gen 37 entry foretells this sibling, this entry names the Gen 37 entry as its anchor. Gen 37 entry appliesTo correctly left at [37:32]. ASV-baseline 'Discern, I pray thee' matches the Gen 37:32 surface so the echo is reproducible."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:26","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. tzadaq; B. Johnson in TDOT XII:239-264; Sarna JPS Genesis p. 270; overlay entry tzadqah-mimmeni-she-is-in-the-right"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed va-yakker Yehudah ... tzadqah mimmeni ki al-ken lo netatiha le-Shelah beni. va-yakker (Hiphil nakar) closes the recognition-loop. tzadqah mimmeni crux correctly documented: comparative ('more righteous than I', ASV/KJV) vs. forensic 'in the right' (NJPS/NRSV/Alter, reading min comparatively or causally). ASV-baseline comparative kept on surface, forensic reading in apparatus. Defensible."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:27","status":"approve","reasoning":"va-yehi be-et lidtah ve-hinneh te'omim be-vitnah. te'omim ('twins', cf. Gen 25:24) ASV-baseline; pooled into the Zerach birth-scene entry appropriately."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:28","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna JPS Genesis p. 271; HALOT s.v. shani; overlay entry zerach-shining-scarlet-etymology"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed va-yitten-yad ... va-tiqshor al-yado shani ... zeh yatza rishonah. shani ('scarlet thread') ASV-baseline; the firstborn-marker that the breach-birth then reverses. Correctly pooled into zerach-shining-scarlet-etymology."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:29","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. prtz; Sarna JPS Genesis p. 271; Ruth 4:18-22; 1 Chr 2:4-5; Matt 1:3; central entry peretz-breach-davidic-ancestor-etymology"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed mah-paratzta alekha paretz ... va-yiqra shemo Paretz. Explicit cognate aetiology on root p-r-tz (paratz 'break through', peretz 'breach'). ASV-baseline clause 'made a breach for thyself' + transliterated name 'Peretz' lets the wordplay survive without glossing the name. Central housing justified by Davidic-line reach (Ruth 4:18-22; 1 Chr 2:4-5; Matt 1:3). inferred calibration correct."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-38:30","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna JPS Genesis p. 271; Alter, Five Books of Moses pp. 219-220; HALOT s.v. zarach; overlay entry zerach-shining-scarlet-etymology"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed ve-achar yatza achiv asher al-yado ha-shani va-yiqra shemo Zarach. Name implicit-aetiology correctly handled: both the zarach 'shine/dawn' root and the shani scarlet association documented, surface transliterates 'Zerach' and leaves the etymology unstated (as the Hebrew does). Chapter-singular overlay housing correct vs. Peretz's central housing — defensible split."}],"glossaryReview":[{"glossary_id":"yibbum-levirate-marriage-institution","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. ybm; BDB p. 386; TDOT V:367-373; NIDOTTE 2:387-389; Westbrook 1991; Deut 25:5-10; Ruth 4"],"reasoning":"Source re-parsed: ve-yabbem is the denominative Piel of y-b-m (the HB technical levirate cluster). claim_type inferred is the right calibration (NOT direct): the surface keeps the ASV periphrasis while the recorded substance is the institutional reading + the Deut 25 / Ruth 4 cross-corpus dossier. Central housing justified by that cross-corpus reach. No synthesis."},{"glossary_id":"qedeshah-consecrated-woman-sacred-prostitution-crux","status":"approve","citations":["Budin 2008; Westenholz HTR 82 (1989) 245-265; Gruber UF 18 (1986) 133-148; Bird 1997; Speiser AB Genesis p. 300; HALOT/BDB p. 873; TDOT XII:521-545"],"reasoning":"Both named mainstream positions documented even-handedly and not adjudicated; the shared q-d-sh lexical core is accurate. claim_type inferred is correct — NOT direct (the substance is a contested interpretive standoff, not a self-evident gloss) and NOT speculative (no project-specific synthesis; both positions are credentialed scholarship). Transliteration is the only surface that preserves the zonah->qedeshah shift without prejudging the cultic question. Central by cross-corpus reach. No downgrade warranted."},{"glossary_id":"peretz-breach-davidic-ancestor-etymology","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. prtz; BDB pp. 829-830; Sarna JPS Genesis p. 271; Ruth 4:18-22; 1 Chr 2; Matt 1:3"],"reasoning":"p-r-tz aetiology accurate (paratz 'break through', peretz 'breach'; cf. Ba'al-Peratzim 2 Sam 5:20). Central housing justified by the Davidic-line reach (Ruth 4:18-22; 1 Chr 2:4-5; Matt 1:3). inferred calibration correct. No leakage."},{"glossary_id":"zonah-prostitute-status-vocabulary-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. z-n-h; BDB pp. 275-277; TDOT IV:99-104; Sarna JPS Genesis pp. 263-271"],"reasoning":"appliesTo extension verified correct: 38:15 (Qal participle, narrator's word) and 38:24 (finite zantah / abstract li-znunim) both belong to this lemma-decision; the rationale already named 38:15, so this is scope-formalization, not a new decision. Extending (vs. a Gen 38 sibling) is the right call here precisely because it is the SAME decision, unlike the haker-na case. Pre-existing claim_type direct unchanged and appropriate (lexicographical consensus)."},{"glossary_id":"zera-levirate-progeny-raise-up-seed","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. zera; BDB pp. 282-283; Sarna JPS Genesis pp. 266-267; Westbrook 1991"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed vv 8-9: zera as the narrow legal-genealogical 'offspring reckoned to the dead brother', distinct from the central covenant-promise zera entries. Overlay housing correct (chapter-specific deployment). inferred correct; ASV-baseline 'seed' preserves the triple-repetition. No leakage."},{"glossary_id":"ve-shichet-artzah-onan-euphemism","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. shachat (Piel); BDB pp. 1007-1008; Sarna JPS Genesis p. 267; Speiser AB Genesis p. 300"],"reasoning":"shachat Piel 'ruin/destroy' (cf. Gen 6:11-12) with unexpressed object verified; the euphemism analysis and shichet/haqem contrast are accurate. Overlay (chapter-singular) correct; inferred correct; ASV-baseline 'spilled it on the ground' kept. No leakage."},{"glossary_id":"petach-einayim-toponym-eyes-pun","status":"approve","citations":["Alter, Five Books of Moses pp. 217-218; Sarna JPS Genesis p. 268; HALOT s.vv. petach, ayin, tza'if, alaf; Josh 15:34"],"reasoning":"Einayim = dual of ayin; the 'opening of eyes' pun is a genuine, scholarly-noted latent resonance (Alter, Sarna) left in apparatus while the surface holds the toponym. tza'if / tit'allaf disguise-lexemes accurate. Overlay correct; inferred correct. No over-resolution toward the pun on the surface."},{"glossary_id":"eravon-pledge-triad-signet-cord-staff","status":"approve","citations":["Speiser AB Genesis p. 299; Sarna JPS Genesis pp. 268-269; BDAG s.v. arrabon; HALOT s.vv. eravon, chotam, patil, matteh"],"reasoning":"eravon (commercial-legal pledge; loaned as Greek arrabon), chotam/petil/matteh identity-triad verified, repeated verbatim at vv 18 and 25. One overlay entry governing vv 17/18/25 is the right unit. inferred correct; ASV-baseline kept. No leakage."},{"glossary_id":"haker-na-tamar-recognition-gen38","status":"approve","citations":["Alter, The Art of Biblical Narrative ch. 1; Goldin JBL 96 (1977) 27-44; Sarna JPS Genesis p. 270; HALOT s.v. nakar (Hiphil); TDOT IX:423-432"],"reasoning":"Verified this is a GENUINE separate sibling entry (appliesTo [38:25, 38:26]), NOT an appliesTo-extension of the Gen 37 entry (whose appliesTo correctly remains [37:32]). The bidirectional cross-reference resolves both ways: the Gen 37 entry's rationale foretells 'the Gen 38 haker-na should receive its own sibling overlay entry ... cross-referencing this one', and this entry names haker-na-nakar-recognition-motif as its Gen 37 anchor. This is the correct application of the ratified sibling-overlay pattern. nakar Hiphil + measure-for-measure echo accurate. inferred correct."},{"glossary_id":"tzadqah-mimmeni-she-is-in-the-right","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. tzadaq; B. Johnson in TDOT XII:239-264; Sarna JPS Genesis p. 270; Scullion ABD 5:724-736"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed tzadqah mimmeni: the comparative (ASV/KJV) vs. forensic/vindication ('in the right', NJPS/NRSV/Alter) readings — turning on min comparative-vs-causal — are documented accurately. Overlay correct: the noun tzedaqah is centrally anchored (15:6; 18:19) but this verbal forensic declaration is chapter-singular. inferred correct; ASV-baseline comparative kept on surface. No synthesis."},{"glossary_id":"zerach-shining-scarlet-etymology","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna JPS Genesis p. 271; Alter, Five Books of Moses pp. 219-220; HALOT s.vv. zarach, shani, te'om"],"reasoning":"zarach 'rise/shine/dawn' (cf. mizrach) and the shani scarlet-thread association both documented as the two implicit etymologies, with shani (vv 28,30) and te'omim (v 27, cf. Gen 25:24) pooled in. Name transliterated, etymology unstated on surface as in the Hebrew. Overlay (chapter-singular) correct — sound split against the central Peretz entry. inferred correct."}],"lens-leakage-flags":[]}},
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:1",
        "text": "And it came to pass at that time, that Yehudah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:2",
        "text": "And Yehudah saw there a daughter of a certain Kena'anite whose name was Shua; and he took her, and went in unto her."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:3",
        "text": "And she conceived, and bore a son; and he called his name Er."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:4",
        "text": "And she conceived again, and bore a son; and she called his name Onan."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:5",
        "text": "And she yet again bore a son, and called his name Shelah; and he was at Khziv when she bore him."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:6",
        "text": "And Yehudah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:7",
        "text": "And Er, Yehudah's firstborn, was wicked in the eyes of YHWH; and YHWH slew him."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:8",
        "text": "And Yehudah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her, and raise up seed to thy brother."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:9",
        "text": "And Onan knew that the seed would 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."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:10",
        "text": "And the thing which he did was evil in the eyes of YHWH; and he slew him also."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:11",
        "text": "Then said Yehudah to Tamar his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow in thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown up; for he said, Lest he also die, like his brethren. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:12",
        "text": "And in process of time the daughter of Shua, Yehudah's wife, died; and Yehudah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:13",
        "text": "And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnah to shear his sheep."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:14",
        "text": "And she put off from her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the entrance of Einayim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she was not given unto him to wife."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:15",
        "text": "When Yehudah saw her, he took her for a prostitute; for she had covered her face."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:16",
        "text": "And he turned unto her by the way, 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?"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:17",
        "text": "And he said, I will send thee a kid of the goats from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:18",
        "text": "And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet and thy cord, and thy staff that is in thy hand. And he gave them to her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:19",
        "text": "And she arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:20",
        "text": "And Yehudah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand; but he found her not."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:21",
        "text": "Then he asked the men of her place, saying, Where is the qedeshah, that was at Einayim by the way? And they said, There hath been no qedeshah here."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:22",
        "text": "And he returned to Yehudah, and said, I have not found her; and also the men of the place said, There hath been no qedeshah here."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:23",
        "text": "And Yehudah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be put to shame; behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:24",
        "text": "And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Yehudah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the harlot; and moreover, behold, she is with child by harlotry. And Yehudah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:25",
        "text": "When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and the cords, and the staff."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:26",
        "text": "And Yehudah acknowledged them, and said, She is more righteous than I; forasmuch as I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:27",
        "text": "And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:28",
        "text": "And it came to pass, when she travailed, that one put out a hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:29",
        "text": "And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, Wherefore hast thou made a breach for thyself? therefore his name was called Peretz."
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-38:30",
        "text": "And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zerach."
      }
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