Genesis 38:12-17

12Now 1after a considerable time Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died; and when 2the time of mourning was ended, Judah went up to his sheepshearers at 3Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

13And Tamar was told, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to 4Timnah to shear his sheep.”

14So she 5removed her widow’s garments and 6covered herself with a 7veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gateway of 8Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah had grown up, and 9she had not been given to him as a wife.

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

16So he turned aside to her by the road, and said, “10Here now, let me have relations with you”; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, “What will you give me, that you may have relations with me?”

17He said, therefore, “I will send you a 11young goat from the flock.” She then said, “Will you give a pledge until you send it?”