¹It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

¹Zgodi se pa v tistem času, da je šel Juda od bratov svojih doli, in ustavi se pri nekem Adulamljanu, ki mu je bilo ime Hira.

²Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her, and went in to her.

²In ko je Juda videl tam hčer nekega Kanaanca, ki mu je bilo ime Šuva, jo vzame ter se združi ž njo.

³She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er.

³In ona spočne ter rodi sina, ki ga je imenoval Gera.

⁴She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan.

⁴Nato spočne v drugo ter rodi sina, ki ga je imenovala Onana.

⁵She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.

⁵Potem zopet rodi še sina in ga je imenovala Šela; bil je pa Juda v Kezibu, ko je tega rodila.

⁶Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

⁶Juda pa vzame Geru, prvencu svojemu, ženo, ki ji je bilo ime Tamara.

⁷Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh killed him.

⁷A bil je Ger, prvenec Judov, hudoben v očeh GOSPODOVIH; in GOSPOD ga je usmrtil.

⁸Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother.”

⁸Tedaj reče Juda Onanu: Združi se z ženo brata svojega in na ime bratovo jo vzemi in zbúdi seme svojemu bratu.

⁹Onan knew that the seed wouldn’t be his; and it happened, when he went in to his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.

⁹Vedel je pa Onan, da tisto seme ne bode njegovo, zato ga je, kadar je šel k ženi brata svojega, iztresel na tla, da bi ne dal semena svojemu bratu.

¹⁰The thing which he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he killed him also.

¹⁰Ali hudobno je bilo v očeh GOSPODOVIH, kar je počenjal; in usmrtil je tudi njega.

¹¹Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up”; for he said, “Lest he also die, like his brothers.” Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.

¹¹Zatorej reče Juda Tamari, snahi svoji: Ostani vdova v hiši svojega očeta, dokler ne doraste Šela, sin moj. Dejal je namreč: Da bi ne umrl tudi ta kakor bratje njegovi. In odide Tamara in ostane v hiši svojega očeta.

¹²After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.

¹²Ko pa je preteklo mnogo dni, umre hči Šuvova, Judova žena. In Juda, ko se je bil potolažil, je šel gori k strižcem črede svoje v Timno, on in Hira Adulamljan, prijatelj njegov.

¹³It was told Tamar, saying, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”

¹³In sporoče Tamari, govoreč: Glej, tast tvoj gre gori v Timno strič ovce svoje.

¹⁴She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.

¹⁴In ona sleče oblačila vdovstva svojega, se odene z zagrinjačo ter sede pri vhodu v Enaim, ob potu proti Timni. Videla je namreč, da je Šela odrastel, ona pa da mu ni bila dana za ženo.

¹⁵When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

¹⁵Ko jo pa vidi Juda, meni, da je nečistnica, kajti zagrnila si je obličje.

¹⁶He turned to her by the way, and said, “Please come, let me come in to you,” for he didn’t know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”

¹⁶Ustavi se torej pri njej ob potu ter reče: Dovoli mi, da se združim s teboj. Ni vedel namreč, da je snaha njegova. Ona pa reče: Kaj mi daš, da se združiš z menoj?

¹⁷He said, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” She said, “Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?”

¹⁷In on reče: Poslati ti hočem kozliča od črede. Ona pa reče: Daj mi zastavo, dokler mi ga ne pošlješ!

¹⁸He said, “What pledge will I give you?” She said, “Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.” He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.

¹⁸Tedaj vpraša: Kakšno naj ti dam zastavo? In ona veli: Pečatnik svoj s trakom svojim in palico svojo, ki je v roki tvoji. In da ji to ter se združi ž njo, in spočela je od njega.

¹⁹She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

¹⁹Nato vstane Tamara in odide ter sleče zagrinjačo svojo in obleče svojega vdovstva oblačila.

²⁰Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he didn’t find her.

²⁰Juda pa pošlje tistega kozliča po prijatelju svojem, onem Adulamljanu, da dobi nazaj zastavo od ženske; ali ne najde je.

²¹Then he asked the men of her place, saying, “Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?” They said, “There has been no prostitute here.”

²¹In popraševal je može v njenem kraju, govoreč: Kje je tista ljubovnica [Hebrejski kedeša, t. j. ženska, posvečena nečistosti v čast maliku.], ki je bila v Enaimu pri potu? Reko: Ni bilo tu ljubovnice.

²²He returned to Judah, and said, “I haven’t found her; and also the men of the place said, ‘There has been no prostitute here.’”

²²Zato se vrne k Judi in reče: Nisem je našel; pa so tudi rekli ljudje tistega kraja: Ni bilo tu ljubovnice.

²³Judah said, “Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven’t found her.”

²³In Juda reče: Naj si obdrži tisto! Da le ne prideva v zasmeh. Glej, poslal sem tega kozliča, ti pa je nisi našel.

²⁴It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.” Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burnt.”

²⁴Prigodi se pa blizu po treh mesecih, da so sporočili Judi, govoreč: Nečistovala je Tamara, snaha tvoja, in glej, tudi noseča je iz nečistovanja. In Juda reče: Peljite jo ven, da jo sežgo!

²⁵When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “By the man, whose these are, I am with child.” She also said, “Please discern whose are these—the signet, and the cords, and the staff.”

²⁵Ko so jo peljali ven, je poslala k tastu svojemu povedat: Od moža, čigaver je to, sem noseča. In reče: Spoznaj, prosim, čigavo je to: pečatnik in trak in palica ta.

²⁶Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.” He knew her again no more.

²⁶In Juda je to spoznal in reče: Pravičnejša je od mene, zato ker je nisem dal Šelu, sinu svojemu. In ni je nikoli več spoznal.

²⁷It happened in the time of her travail, that behold, twins were in her womb.

²⁷In ko pride čas njenega poroda, glej, dvojčka v njenem telesu.

²⁸When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, “This came out first.”

²⁸In zgodi se, ko je rodila, da njiju eden pomoli roko, in babica vzame rdečo nit ter jo priveže na roko njegovo, rekoč: Ta je prišel prvi na svet.

²⁹It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out, and she said, “Why have you made a breach for yourself?” Therefore his name was called Perez. Perez means “breaking out.”

²⁹In ko ta nazaj potegne roko svojo, glej, brat njegov pride na svet, in ona reče: Kako si ti predrl! tvoj je predor. Zato so ga imenovali Pereza [T. j. predor.].Potem pa izide brat njegov, na čigar roki je bila tista rdeča nit; in imenovali so ga Zeraha.

³⁰Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah. Zerah means “scarlet” or “brightness.”

³⁰Potem pa izide brat njegov, na čigar roki je bila tista rdeča nit; in imenovali so ga Zeraha.