22 He returned to Judah, and said, 'I haven't found her; and also the men of the place said, 'There has been no prostitute here.''
23 Judah said, 'Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this kid, and you haven't found her.'
24 It 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 forth, and let her be burnt.'
25 When she was brought forth, 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.'
26 Judah 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.
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