21And he put questions to the men of the place, saying, Where is the loose woman who was in Enaim by the wayside? And they said, There was no such woman there.
22So he went back to Judah, and said, I have not seen her, and the men of the place say that there is no such woman there.
23And Judah said, Let her keep the things, so that we may not be shamed; I sent the young goat, but you did not see the woman.
24Now about three months after this, word came to Judah that Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had been acting like a loose woman and was with child. And Judah said, Take her out and let her be burned.
25And while she was being taken out, she sent word to her father-in-law, saying, The man whose property these things are, is the father of my child: say then, whose are this ring and this cord and this stick?
26Then Judah said openly that they were his, and said, She is more upright than I am, for I did not give her to Shelah my son. And he had no more connection with her.
27And when the time came for her to give birth, it was clear that there were two children in her body.
