Jubilees 41

1And in the forty-fifth jubilee, in the second week, in the second year, Judah took

2For Er his firstborn he took a wife from the daughters of Aram, and her name was Tamar. But he rejected her and did not lie with her, because his mother was from the daughters of Canaan, and he wanted to take for himself a wife from the kin of his mother.

3And Judah his father forbade him. And Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil, and the LORD put him to death.

4And Judah said to Onan, his brother,, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform a brother-in-law’s duty to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”

5offspring for your brother.” And Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, but his brother’s; and when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled the seed on the ground. And it was evil in the sight of

6the LORD, and he put him to death. And Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, “Remain in your father’s house while...”

7Remain a widow until my son Shelah grows up, and I will give you to him as a wife. And he grew up, but Bedsu’el, Judah’s wife, did not let Shelah her son to marry, and Bed[su'el] died.

8And in the fifth year of this week, Shua, the wife of Judah, died. And in the sixth year Judah went up to shear his sheep at Timnah, and they told Tamar, saying, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear.”

9...his sheep in Timnah. And she took off the garments of her widowhood, put on a veil, and adorned herself.

10And she sat at the entrance that is on the road to Timnah. And as Judah was going, he found her.

11And he thought her to be a prostitute and said to her, “Let me come in to you,” and she said to him, “Come,” and he went in. And she said to him,

27And by this he will turn away wrath and punishment from Israel. And to Judah we said that his two sons had not lain with her, and because of this his seed was established for another tribe and was not uprooted.

28For he went in the innocence of his eyes and sought judgment, because by the judgment of Abraham, which he commanded his sons, Judah desired that she be burned with fire.