Then they came back to En-mishpat (which is Kadesh), making waste all the country of the Amalekites and of the Amorites living in Hazazon-tamar.
And Judah took a wife for his first son Er, and her name was Tamar.
Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Go back to your father's house and keep yourself as a widow till my son Shelah becomes a man: for he had in his mind the thought that death might come to him as it had come to his brothers. So tamar went back to her father's house.
And when Tamar had news that her father-in-law was going up to Timnah to the wool-cutting,
Now about three months after this, word came to Judah that Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had been acting like a loose woman and was with child. And Judah said, Take her out and let her be burned.
So all the men of Israel got up and put themselves in fighting order at Baal-tamar: and those who had been waiting secretly to make a surprise attack came rushing out of their place on the west of Geba.
May your family be like the family of Perez, the son whom tamar gave to Judah, from the offspring which the Lord may give you by this young woman.
Now after this, it came about that Absalom, David's son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and David's son Amnon was in love with her.
And he was so deeply in love that he became ill because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin, and so it seemed hard to Amnon to do anything to her.
And he said to him, O son of the king, why are you getting thinner day by day? will you not say what your trouble is? And Amnon said to him, I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.
Then Jonadab said to him, Go to your bed, and let it seem that you are ill: and when your father comes to see you, say to him, Let my sister tamar come and give me bread, and get the food ready before my eyes, so that I may see it and take it from her hand.
So Amnon went to bed and made himself seem ill: and when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, please let my sister Tamar come and make me one or two cakes before my eyes, so that I may take food from her hand.
Then David sent to the house for Tamar and said, Go now to your brother Amnon's house and get a meal for him.
So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was in bed. And she took paste and made cakes before his eyes, cooking them over the fire.
Then Amnon said to Tamar, Take the food and come into my bedroom, so that I may take it from your hand. So Tamar took the cakes she had made and went with them into her brother Amnon's bedroom.
And Tamar, in her grief, put dust on her head; and she put her hand on her head and went away crying loudly.
And her brother Absalom said to her, Has your brother Amnon been with you? but now, let there be an end to your crying, my sister: he is your brother, do not take this thing to heart. So Tamar went on living uncomforted in her brother's house.
But Absalom said nothing to his brother Amnon, good or bad: for he was full of hate for him, because he had taken his sister Tamar by force.
And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother, said, Let not my lord have the idea that all the sons of the king have been put to death; for only Amnon is dead: this has been purposed by Absalom from the day when he took his sister Tamar by force.
And Absalom was the father of three sons and of one daughter named Tamar, who was very beautiful.
And Baalath and tamar in the waste land, in that land;
And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had Perez and Zerah by him. All the sons of Judah were five.
All these were the sons of David, in addition to the sons of his servant-wives; and tamar was their sister.
And they came to Jehoshaphat with the news, saying, A great army is moving against you from edom across the sea; and now they are in Hazazon-tamar (which is En-gedi).
And the east side will be from Hazar-enon, which is between Hauran and Damascus; and between gilead and the land of Israel the Jordan will be the limit, to the east sea, to Tamar. This is the east side.
And the south side to the south will be from tamar as far as the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the stream of Egypt, to the Great Sea. This is the south side, on the south.
And on the limit of Gad, on the south side and to the south of it, the limit will be from tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the stream, to the Great Sea.
And the sons of Judah were Perez and Zerah by Tamar; and the son of Perez was Hezron; and the son of Hezron was Ram;
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