Genesis 38:13-17
Genesis 38:13
And Tamar was told, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”
Genesis 38:14
So she removed her widow’s garments and covered herself with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gateway of Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she had not been given to him as a wife.
Genesis 38:15
When Judah saw her, he assumed she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.
Genesis 38:16
So he turned aside to her by the road, and said, “Here 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?”
Genesis 38:17
He said, therefore, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” She then said, “Will you give a pledge until you send it?”