KJV King James Version
And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Genesis 38:13
And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”
WEB World English Bible
It was told Tamar, saying, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”
ASV American Standard Version
And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnah to shear his sheep.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And it is declared to Tamar, saying, ‘Lo, thy husband’s father is going up to Timnath to shear his flock;’
Surrounding context — Genesis 38
10 And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.
11 Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father’s house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren [did]. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.
12 And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah’s wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.
14 And she put her widow’s garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which [is] by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.
15 When Judah saw her, he thought her [to be] an harlot; because she had covered her face.
16 And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, 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?
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