"and she became pregnant by him.

She arose and went away,
then she put off her veil from her
and clothed herself in her widow's garments.

"Now when Yehuda sent the goat kid
by the hand of his friend the Adullamite,
to fetch the pledge from the woman's hand,
he could not find her.
He asked the people of her place, saying:
Where is that holy-prostitute, the one in Two-wells by the road?

"They said:
There has been no holy-prostitute [Qedeshah] here!
Yehuda said;
Let her keep them for herself, lest we become a laughing-stock.
Here, I sent her this kid but you, you could not find her.

"Now it was, after almost three New-Moons
that Yehuda was told, saying:

"Tamar your daughter-in-law has played-the-whore,
in fact, she has become pregnant from whoring!

"Yehuda said;
bring her out and let her be burned!"

"(but) as she was being brought out,
she sent a message to her father-in-law, saying:
by the man to whom these belong I am pregnant.
And she said;
Pray recognize-
whose seal and cords and staff are these?
Yehuda recognized them
and said;
She is in-the-right more than I!
For after all, I did not give her to Shela my son!
And he did not know her again.

"Now it was, at the time of her birthing, that here:
twins were in her body!
And it was, as she was giving birth,
that (one of them) put out a hand;
the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying:
This one came out first.
But it was, as he pulled back his hand, here, his brother came out!
So she said;
"What a breach you have breached for yourself!
So they called his name; Peretz/Breach.      [See Peretz]
Afterward his brother came out,
on whose hand was the scarlet thread.
They called his name Zerah.