Genesis - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 38

GENESIS.A and separated from his bfothers, and fore when he approached his brothe1·’s inthe eyes of the ~EvEn·1.1vme, and therefore He caused him to die. tum as a widow to your father’s name was Hirah. Whilst there he saw the daughter of a. Cananite, whose name was Beth-Shua and he took her and married her, and she conceived and borea sou,. and called his. name ‘Ar;' Then she conceived again and bore a son, and called his name Onan. She afterwards in~ creased and bore a son and called his name Shelah; then she ceased to be child-bearing. When judah took: a wife for his

eldest son Ar,her name was Thamar. But Ar, ]udah’s eldest son, was wicked in the presence of the EVER- mvxuo, so the Lone caused him to die. judahl consequently said to Marry, the wife, of your But Onan knew that the heir would not be his own, there- wife, he ejected on the ground, in- stead ofgxving seed to his brother. What hedid-— was, however, wicked 38-24 37-——3o 33 34 35 38 when Reuben returned to the well he did not find joseph in the well, so he tore his garments. When he went back to his brothers he said ;·—-F‘ The lad is not! and mourning, I shall grieve, and die of grief.? '1`hey,however,t0ok and slaughtered

a goat kid and dabbled his robe in its blood, and sent the °long—sleeved robe to their father with this mes- sage, ‘¥ About this robe which we send you, send back and say if it isthe _ Andhe It is the robe ofmy son. Some wild beast has tornand, eaten jacob consequently store his garments, and put on sackcloth for his death, and mourned for his son many days. Then all his sons and all his

daughters arose to console him, but he refused their consolations, and } shall go mourn- so he weptfor his son. But the Midianites sold him in

Mitzeraim to lPotiphar,.the General of Pharoh, Commander of his Guards. §i¤t¤rg uf §nh¤l). About this same time judah went

joined with _an_ Adulamite, whose IO II brother, and raise up an heir for Re- house until Shelah my son grows Perhaps she may also kill him like his brothers, Therefore Thamar went andreturned to her father’s house. But time went on, and Beth-Shua

the wife of judah died and Judah grieved for her, and went up with Hirah the Adnlamite, his partner, to shear the sheep at Timnath; and _it was reported to Thamar, that her father-in-law was going up to '1`im# nath to shear his sheep, so she put her widow’s weeds and concealed herself in her veil, and went down and sat at the opening by the wells which are on the road to Timnath, for she saw that Shelahwas grown up, and he was- not given to her as a husband judah saw her, and he thought she wasa harlot, for she had hidden her face, so he turned from the road to Come on,·- go with -—·for he knew not she was his daughter-in-law. What will you give to me, if I go with you»?·’ I will send you a kid of the goats or sheep; If you will give

me a pledge that you will send What is the pledge that I shall give you ? ’ Your ring and the stick you have in your hand. So-he gave her them, and he went with her, and she conceived to him. Then she arose, and went and put

the veil from off her, and dressed herself in her widow's weeds. But judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his partner the Adulazn- ite, who was to receive the pledge from the hand of the woman;-···and he could not find her. He therefore enquired of the men of . the_ place Where is the whore of the But they There _ is no whore by So he returned to judah I cannot find her; and the men of the place said ‘ there was not a whore there} judah, therefore, said; “ You have

taken it to her, therefore I cannot be abused by her; for I sent thekid, but you could not find, her.’ But three months after it was

Your daughter- in~law Thamar has prostituted -her- self, and she is also with child from I2 16 18 20 21 22