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Yuta hab Thama

¹Thaus hov Yuta ncaim nwg cov kwvtij tswv moog nrug ib tug tuabneeg Antulaa kws npe hu ua Hila nyob lawm. ²Yuta txawm pum cov Khana‑aa ib tug ntxhais hov ntawd. Tug ntxhais hov txwv hu ua Sua. Yuta txawm yuav tug ntxhais hov ua quaspuj hab moog nrug nwg pw ua ke. ³Tug quaspuj hov txhad xeeb tub mas yug tau ib tug tub muab tis npe hu ua Ws. ⁴Nwg rov qaab xeeb tub mas yug tau ib tug tub muab tis npe hu ua Auna. ⁵Nwg yug tau dua ib tug tub muab tis npe hu ua Sela. Thaus yug tug tub nuav yog nwg nyob ntawm lub moos Khexib. ⁶Yuta txhad yuav ib tug nyaab hu ua Thama rua Ws kws yog nwg tug tub hlub. ⁷Yawmsaub pum tas Ws kws yog Yuta tug tub hlub ua phem, Yawmsaub txhad muab nwg tua lawm. ⁸Yuta txawm has rua Auna tas, “Koj ca le yuav koj nam tij lawv le txuj kev txujcai es moog nrug nwg pw sub txhad muaj tub ki rua koj tug tijlaug hab.” ⁹Auna paub has tas nwg cov noob yuav tsw ua nwg caaj ceg tes nwg nrug nwg tug nam tij pw thaus twg los nwg pheej muab cov noob ua poob rua peg teb. Nwg txhob txwm ua le hov sub txhad tsw muaj mivnyuas ua nwg tug tijlaug feem. ¹⁰Yawmsaub pum tas qhov kws Auna ua le hov kuj yog ua txhum mas Yawmsaub txhad muab nwg tua pov tseg lawm hab. ¹¹Tes Yuta txawm has rua Thama kws yog nwg tug nyaab tas, “Koj ca le rov qaab moog nyob ua puj ntsuag rua huv koj txwv tsev moog txug thaus kuv tug tub Sela hlub tav txwv tsaiv,” vem Yuta ntshai tsaam nwg tug tub hov tsua tuag le ob tug tijlaug hab. Tes Thama txhad rov qaab moog nrug nwg nam nwg txwv nyob lawm.
¹²Nyob ntev loo tes Yuta tug quaspuj kws yog Sua tug ntxhais txawm tuag lawm. Thaus Yuta rov zoo sab mivntswv lawm nwg txawm nrug nwg tug phoojywg Hila kws yog tuabneeg Antulaa ua ke moog saib nwg cov tub zug txav plaub yaaj peg lub zog Thinaj. ¹³Muaj tuabneeg has rua Thama tas, “Koj swm saib, koj txwv yawg saamswm tuaj moog txav plaub yaaj peg Thinaj.” ¹⁴Tes Thama txawm hloov hlo cev tsoog puj ntsuag ca txawm muab ib daim ntaub nyag nyag kauv hlo nwg ntsej muag moog nyob ntawm kev tshuam kws yuav nkaag rua huv lub zog Ena‑i hab yuav moog peg Thinaj, tsua qhov nwg yeej paub tas Sela hlub tav txwv lawm los nwg tseed tsw tau moog ua Sela quaspuj. ¹⁵Thaus Yuta pum Thama mas xaav has tas yog ib tug puj muag cev xwb, vem yog Thama muab ib daim ntaub kauv ntsej muag lawm. ¹⁶Yuta txhad txaav zog moog has rua nwg tom ntug kev tas, “Lug es kuv yuav nrug koj pw ua ke,” tsua qhov nwg tub tsw paub tas yog nwg tug nyaab. Thama txawm has tas, “Yog koj nrug kuv pw saib koj yuav muab daabtsw rua kuv.” ¹⁷Yuta teb tas, “Kuv yuav xaa kuv le ib tug mivnyuas tshws tuaj rua koj.” Thama txawm has tas, “Muab ib yaam daabtsw ua puav pheej ca moog txug thaus koj xaa tug mivnyuas tshws tuaj puas tau?” ¹⁸Yuta txawm nug has tas, “Yog le es koj xaav yuav daabtsw lug ua puav pheej ca?” Thama teb tas, “Thov muab lub nplhaib nrug saw kws koj swv txaam txwm hab koj tug paas nreg ua puav pheej ca.” Yuta kuj muab rua nwg hab moog nrug nwg pw tes Thama txawm xeeb mivnyuas. ¹⁹Nwg sawv tseeg rov moog tsev muab daim ntaub kauv ntsej muag yaws hlo ca muab cev tsoog puj ntsuag lug naav kag.
²⁰Yuta muab tug mivnyuas tshws rua nwg tug phoojywg kws yog tuabneeg Antulaa coj moog txhwv tej kws nwg muab nas ca ntawm tug puj hov txhais teg lug, tassws moog nrhav tsw pum tug puj hov. ²¹Nwg txhad nug cov txwvneej kws nyob hov ntawd tas, “Tug puj muag cev kws nyob ntawm ntug kev huv Ena‑i nuav moog dua twg lawm?” Puab teb tas, “Ntawm nuav yeej tsw muaj ib tug puj muag cev le.” ²²Yuta tug phoojywg txhad rov moog has rua Yuta tas, “Kuv nrhav tsw pum le. Cov txwvneej kws nyob hov has tas yeej tsw muaj ib tug puj muag cev nyob ntawd le.” ²³Yuta txawm has tas, “Ca nwg khaws tej hov txhua chaw ntawd ca sub luas txhad tsw tau chaw luag ib. Kuv tub muab tug mivnyuas tshws nuav xaa moog rua nwg tassws koj nrhav tsw tau nwg xwb.”
²⁴Kwvlaam peb lub hlis tom qaab muaj tuabneeg has rua Yuta tas, “Thama kws yog koj tug nyaab moog ua puj muag cev muaj mivnyuas lawm.” Yuta txhad has tas, “Ca le coj nwg tawm moog, muab nwg hlawv pov tseg.” ²⁵Thaus puab saamswm coj Thama tawm moog, Thama txawm tso tuabneeg moog has rua txwv yawg has tas, “Kuv plaab mivnyuas nuav yog cov hov txhua chaw nuav tug tswv le mivnyuas.” Hab nwg has tas, “Thov koj swm ua tuab zoo saib lub nplhaib nrug saw kws txaam txwm hab tug paas nreg nuav yog leejtwg le.” ²⁶Yuta paub hlo tas yog nwg le, nwg txhad has tas, “Tug quaspuj nuav ua ncaaj dua kuv vem yog kuv tsw muab nwg txws rua kuv tug tub Sela.” Yuta kuj tsw nrug Thama pw ua ke dua le lawm.
²⁷Thaus txug caij yug mivnyuas na cav yog ib nkawm mivnyuas ntxaib nyob huv plaab. ²⁸Thaus saamswm yug mas ib tug mivnyuas txawm cev teg tshwm lug ua ntej. Tug puj kws paab yug mivnyuas muab ib txuj xuv lab khi txhais teg mas has tas, “Tug nuav xub yug.” ²⁹Thaus kws tug mivnyuas hov nkaum teg lawm txawm yug tau dua ib tug ua ntej. Tug puj kws paab yug mivnyuas txawm qw has tas, “Eb, txeem le caag lug,” mas txhad muab tis npe hu ua Peles.⚓ ³⁰Dhau hov tug kws khi txuj xuv lab ntawm txhais teg le yug lug txhad muab tis npe hu ua Xelag.⚓

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Judah and Tamar

¹It came to pass at that time that Judah departed from his brothers, and ⚓visited a certain Adullamite whose name was Hirah. ²And Judah ⚓saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was⚓Shua, and he married her and went in to her. ³So she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name ⚓Er. ⁴She conceived again and bore a son, and she called his name ⚓Onan. ⁵And she conceived yet again and bore a son, and called his name ⚓Shelah. He was at Chezib when she bore him.
⁶Then Judah ⚓took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was⚓Tamar. ⁷But ⚓Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, ⚓and the Lord killed him. ⁸And Judah said to Onan, “Go in to ⚓your brother’s wife and marry her, and raise up an heir to your brother.” ⁹But Onan knew that the heir would not be ⚓his; and it came to pass, when he went in to his brother’s wife, that he emitted on the ground, lest he should give an heir to his brother. ¹⁰And the thing which he did displeased the Lord; therefore He killed ⚓him also.
¹¹Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, ⚓“Remain a widow in your father’s house till my son Shelah is grown.” For he said, “Lest he also die like his brothers.” And Tamar went and dwelt ⚓in her father’s house.
¹²Now in the process of time the daughter of Shua, Judah’s wife, died; and Judah ⚓was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. ¹³And it was told Tamar, saying, “Look, your father-in-law is going up ⚓to Timnah to shear his sheep.” ¹⁴So she took off her widow’s garments, covered herself with a veil and wrapped herself, and ⚓sat in an open place which was on the way to Timnah; for she saw ⚓that Shelah was grown, and she was not given to him as a wife. ¹⁵When Judah saw her, he thought she was a harlot, because she had covered her face. ¹⁶Then he turned to her by the way, and said, “Please let me come in to you”; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law.
So she said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”
¹⁷And he said, ⚓“I will send a young goat from the flock.”
So she said, ⚓“Will you give me a pledge till you send it?”
¹⁸Then he said, “What pledge shall I give you?”
So she said, ⚓“Your signet and cord, and your staff that is in your hand.” Then he gave them to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him. ¹⁹So she arose and went away, and ⚓laid aside her veil and put on the garments of her widowhood.
²⁰And Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman’s hand, but he did not find her. ²¹Then he asked the men of that place, saying, “Where is the harlot who was openly by the roadside?”
And they said, “There was no harlot in this place.”
²²So he returned to Judah and said, “I cannot find her. Also, the men of the place said there was no harlot in this place.”
²³Then Judah said, “Let her take them for herself, lest we be shamed; for I sent this young goat and you have not found her.”
²⁴And it came to pass, about three months after, that Judah was told, saying, “Tamar your daughter-in-law has ⚓played the harlot; furthermore she is with child by harlotry.”
So Judah said, “Bring her out ⚓and let her be burned!”
²⁵When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “By the man to whom these belong, I am with child.” And she said, ⚓“Please determine whose these are—the signet and cord, and staff.”
²⁶So Judah ⚓acknowledged them and said, ⚓“She has been more righteous than I, because ⚓I did not give her to Shelah my son.” And he ⚓never knew her again.
²⁷Now it came to pass, at the time for giving birth, that behold, twins were in her womb. ²⁸And so it was, when she was giving birth, that the one put out his hand; and the midwife took a scarlet thread and bound it on his hand, saying, “This one came out first.” ²⁹Then it happened, as he drew back his hand, that his brother came out unexpectedly; and she said, “How did you break through? This breach be upon you!” Therefore his name was called ⚓Perez. ³⁰Afterward his brother came out who had the scarlet thread on his hand. And his name was called ⚓Zerah.