Genesis 38:11
“Then said Iudah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remaine a widow at thy fathers house, til Shelah my sonne be growen: (for he said, Lest peraduenture he die also as his brethren did) and Tamar went and dwelt in her fathers house.”
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Genesis 38:11 Context
9And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to passe when hee went in vnto his brothers wife, that hee spilled it on the ground, least that hee should giue seed to his brother. 10And the thing which he did, displeased the LORD: wherefore hee slew him also. 11Then said Iudah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remaine a widow at thy fathers house, til Shelah my sonne be growen: (for he said, Lest peraduenture he die also as his brethren did) and Tamar went and dwelt in her fathers house. 12¶ And in processe of time, the daughter of Shuah Iudahs wife died: and Iudah was comforted, and went vp vnto his sheepe-shearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. 13And it was told Lamar, saying, Behold, thy father in law goeth vp to Timnath to sheare his sheepe.
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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.
- King James Version
Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Remain a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up; for he thought, "{I am afraid} that he too may die like his brothers." So Tamar went and lived in her father's house."
- New American Standard Version (1995)