Genesis 38:24-26

Expanded Bible

²⁴ About three months later someone told Judah, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, is guilty of acting like a prostitute, and now she ·is pregnant [has conceived].”

Then Judah said, “Bring her out and let her be burned to death.”

²⁵ When ·the people went to bring Tamar out [^Lshe was brought out], she sent a message to her father-in-law that said, “The man who owns these things has made me pregnant. Look at this ·seal [signet] and its cord and this ·walking stick [staff], and tell me whose they are.”

²⁶ Judah recognized them and said, “She is more ·in the right [righteous] than I. She did this because I did not give her to my son Shelah as I promised.” And Judah did not ·have sexual relations with [^Lknow; 4:1] her again.