And it fortuned at that tyme that Iudas went from his brethren ∧ gatt him to a man called Hira of Odollam / and there he sawe the doughter of a man called Sua a Canaanyte. And he toke her &abar;d went in vnto her. And she conceaued and bare a sonne and called his name Er. And she conceaued agayne and bare a sonne and called him

Onan. And she conceaued the thyrde tyme ∧ bare a sonne / whom she called Scla: ∧ he was at Chesyb when she bare hem.

And Iudas gaue Er his eldest sonne / a wife whose name was Thamar. But this Er Iudas eldest sonne was wicked in the syghte of the LORde / wherfore the LORde slewe him. Than sayde Iudas vnto Onan: goo in to thi brothers wyfe and Marie her / and styrre vp seed vnto thy brother. And when Onan perceaued that the seed shulde not be his: therfore when he went in to his brothers wife / he spylled it on the grounde / because he wold not geue seed vnto his brother. And the thinge which he dyd / displeased the LORde / wherfore he slew him also. Than sayde Iudas to Thamar his doughter in lawe: remayne a wydow at thi fathers house / tyll Sela my sonne be growne: for he feared lest he shulde haue dyed also / as his brethren did. Thus went Thamar ∧ dwelt in hir fathers house.

And in processe of tyme / the doughter of Sua Iudas wife dyed. Than Iudas when he had left mornynge / went vnto his shepe sherers to Thimnath with his frende Hira of Odollam. And one told Thamar saynge: beholde / thy father in lawe goth vp to Thimnath / to shere his shepe. And she put hyr wydows garm&ebar;tes of from her and couered her with a clooke / and disgyssed herself: And sat her downe at the entrynge of Enaim which is by the hye

wayes syde to Thimnath / for because she sawe that Sela was growne / and she was not geu&ebar; vnto him to wife.

When Iuda sawe her / he thought it had bene an hoore / because she had couered hyr face. And turned to her vnto the waye and sayde / come I praye the / let me lye with the / for he knewe not that it was his doughter in lawe. And she sayde what wylt thou gyue me / for to lye with me? Th&abar; sayde he / I will sende the a kydd fr&obar; the flocke. She answered / Than geue me a pledge till thou sende it. Than sayde he / what pledge shall I geue the? And she sayde: they sygnett / thy necke lace / and thy staffe that is in thy hande. And he gaue it her and lay by her / and she was with child by him. And she gatt her vp and went and put her mantell from her / &abar;d put on hir widowes rayment agayne.

And Iudas sent the kydd by his neybure of Odollam / for to fetch out his pledge agayne from the wifes hande. But he fownde her not. Than asked he the men of the same place saynge: where is the whoore that satt at Enaim in the waye? And they sayde: there was no whoore here. And he came to Iuda agayne saynge: I can not fynde her / and also the men of the place sayde: that there was no whoore there. And Iuda sayde: let her take it to her / lest we be shamed: for I sente the kydd ∧ thou coudest not fynde her.

And it came to passe that after .iij. monethes

/ one tolde Iuda saynge: Thamar thy doughter in lawe hath played the whoore / and with playnge the whoore is become great with childe. And Iuda sayde: brynge her forth &abar;d let her be brente. And when they brought her forth / she sent to her father in lawe saynge: by the m&abar; vnto whome these thinges pertayne / am I with childe. And sayd also: loke whose are this seall necklace / and staffe. And Iuda knewe them saynge: she is more rightwes th&abar; I / because I gaue her not to Sela my s&obar;ne. But he laye with her nomore.

When tyme was come that she shulde be delyuered / beholde there was .ij. twynnes in hyr w&obar;be. And as she traveled / the one put out his hande and the mydwife toke and bownde a reed threde aboute it saynge: this wyll come out fyrst. But he plucked his hande backe agayne / and his brother came out. And she sayde: wherfore hast thou rent a rent vppon the? and called him Pharez. And afterward came out his brother that had the reade threde about his h&abar;de / which was called Zarah.

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