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10 Then Amnon said to Tamar, ‘Bring the food into the chamber, so that I may eat from your hand.’ So Tamar took the cakes she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother. 11 But when she brought them near him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, ‘Come, lie with me, my sister.’ 12 She answered him, ‘No, my brother, do not force me; for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do anything so vile!

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