Genesi 38

1Or avvenne che, in quel tempo, Giuda discese di presso ai suoi fratelli, e andò a stare da un uomo di Adullam, che avea nome Hira. 2E Giuda vide quivi la figliuola di un Cananeo, chiamato Shua; e se la prese, e convisse con lei. 3Ed ella concepì e partorì un figliuolo, al quale egli pose nome Er. 4Poi ella concepì di nuovo, e partorì un figliuolo, al quale pose nome Onan. 5E partorì ancora un figliuolo, al quale pose nome Scela. Or Giuda era a Kezib, quand’ella lo partorì. 6E Giuda prese per Er, suo primogenito, una moglie che avea nome Tamar. 7Ma Er, primogenito di Giuda, era perverso agli occhi dell’Eterno, e l’Eterno lo fece morire. 8Allora Giuda disse a Onan: "Va’ dalla moglie del tuo fratello, prenditela come cognato, e suscita una progenie al tuo fratello". 9E Onan, sapendo che quella progenie non sarebbe sua, quando s’accostava alla moglie del suo fratello, faceva in modo d’impedire il concepimento, per non dar progenie al fratello. 10Ciò ch’egli faceva dispiacque all’Eterno, il quale fece morire anche lui. 11Allora Giuda disse a Tamar sua nuora: "Rimani vedova in casa di tuo padre, finché Scela, mio figliuolo, sia cresciuto". Perché diceva: "Badiamo che anch’egli non muoia come i suoi fratelli". E Tamar se ne andò, e dimorò in casa di suo padre. 12Passaron molti giorni, e morì la figliuola di Shua, moglie di Giuda; e dopo che Giuda si fu consolato, salì da quelli che tosavan le sue pecore a Timna; egli col suo amico Hira, l’Adullamita. 13Di questo fu informata Tamar, e le fu detto: "Ecco, il tuo suocero sale a Timna a tosare le sue pecore". 14Allora ella si tolse le vesti da vedova, si coprì d’un velo, se ne avvolse tutta, e si pose a sedere alla porta di Enaim, ch’è sulla via di Timna; poiché vedeva che Scela era cresciuto, e nondimeno, lei non gli era stata data per moglie. 15Come Giuda la vide, la prese per una meretrice, perch’essa aveva il viso coperto. 16E accostatosi a lei sulla via, le disse: "Lasciami venire da te!" Poiché non sapeva ch’ella fosse sua nuora. Ed ella rispose: "Che mi darai per venire da me?" 17Ed egli le disse: "Ti manderò un capretto del mio gregge". Ed ella: "Mi darai tu un pegno finché tu me l’abbia mandato?" 18Ed egli: "Che pegno ti darò?" E l’altra rispose: "Il tuo sigillo, il tuo cordone e il bastone che hai in mano". Egli glieli dette, andò da lei, ed ella rimase incinta di lui. 19Poi ella si levò, e se ne andò; si tolse il velo, e si rimise le vesti da vedova. 20E Giuda mandò il capretto per mezzo del suo amico, l’Adullamita, affin di ritirare il pegno di man di quella donna; ma egli non la trovò. 21Interrogò la gente del luogo, dicendo: "Dov’è quella meretrice che stava a Enaim, sulla via?" E quelli risposero: "Qui non c’è stata alcuna meretrice". 22Ed egli se ne tornò a Giuda, e gli disse: "Non l’ho trovata; e, per di più, la gente del luogo m’ha detto: Qui non c’è stata alcuna meretrice". 23E Giuda disse: "Si tenga pure il pegno, che non abbiamo a incorrere nel disprezzo. Ecco, io ho mandato questo capretto, e tu non l’hai trovata". 24Or circa tre mesi dopo, vennero a dire a Giuda: "Tamar, tua nuora, si è prostituita; e, per di più, eccola incinta in seguito alla sua prostituzione". E Giuda disse: "Menatela fuori, e sia arsa!" 25Come la menavano fuori, ella mandò a dire al suocero: "Sono incinta dell’uomo al quale appartengono queste cose". E disse: "Riconosci, ti prego, di chi siano questo sigillo, questi cordoni e questo bastone". 26Giuda li riconobbe, e disse: "Ella è più giusta di me, giacché io non l’ho data a Scela, mio figliuolo". Ed egli non ebbe più relazioni con lei. 27Or quando venne il tempo in cui doveva partorire, ecco ch’essa aveva in seno due gemelli. 28E mentre partoriva, l’un d’essi mise fuori una mano; e la levatrice la prese, e vi legò un filo di scarlatto, dicendo: "Questo qui esce il primo". 29Ma egli ritirò la mano, ed ecco uscir fuori il suo fratello. Allora la levatrice disse: "Perché ti sei fatta questa breccia?" Per questo motivo gli fu messo nome Perets. 30Poi uscì il suo fratello, che aveva alla mano il filo di scarlatto; e fu chiamato Zerach.

1At that time, Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. 2Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her, and went in to her. 3She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er. 4She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan. 5She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him. 6Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. 7Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh killed him. 8Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother.” 9Onan knew that the seed wouldn’t be his; and when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother. 10The thing which he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he killed him also. 11Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up”; for he said, “Lest he also die, like his brothers.” Tamar went and lived in her father’s house. 12After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite. 13It was told Tamar, saying, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.” 14She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife. 15When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face. 16He turned to her by the way, and said, “Please come, let me come in to you,” for he didn’t know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?” 17He said, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” She said, “Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?” 18He said, “What pledge will I give you?” She said, “Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.” He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him. 19She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood. 20Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he didn’t find her. 21Then he asked the men of her place, saying, “Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?” They said, “There has been no prostitute here.” 22He returned to Judah, and said, “I haven’t found her; and also the men of the place said, ‘There has been no prostitute here.’” 23Judah said, “Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven’t found her.” 24About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.” Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burnt.” 25When she was brought out, 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.” 26Judah 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. 27In the time of her travail, behold, twins were in her womb. 28When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, “This came out first.” 29As he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out, and she said, “Why have you made a breach for yourself?” Therefore his name was called Perez. 30Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.

1En het geschiedde ten zelven tijde, dat Juda van zijn broederen aftoog, en hij keerde in tot een man van Adullam, wiens naam was Hira. 2En Juda zag aldaar de dochter van een Kanaanietisch man, wiens naam was Sua; en hij nam haar, en ging tot haar in. 3En zij werd bevrucht, en baarde een zoon, en hij noemde zijn naam Er. 4Daarna werd zij weder bevrucht, en baarde een zoon, en zij noemde zijn naam Onan. 5En zij voer nog voort, en baarde een zoon, en noemde zijn naam Sela; doch hij was te Chezib, toen zij hem baarde. 6Juda nu nam een vrouw voor Er, zijn eerstgeborene, en haar naam was Thamar. 7Maar Er, de eerstgeborene van Juda, was kwaad in des HEEREN ogen; daarom doodde hem de HEERE. 8Toen zeide Juda tot Onan: Ga in tot uws broeders huisvrouw, en trouw haar in uws broeders naam, en verwek uw broeder zaad. 9Doch Onan, wetende, dat dit zaad voor hem niet zoude zijn, zo geschiedde het, als hij tot zijns broeders huisvrouw inging, dat hij het verdierf tegen de aarde, om zijn broeder geen zaad te geven. 10En het was kwaad in des HEEREN ogen, wat hij deed; daarom doodde Hij hem ook. 11Toen zeide Juda tot Thamar, zijn schoondochter: Blijf weduwe in uws vaders huis, totdat mijn zoon Sela groot wordt; want hij zeide: Dat niet misschien ook deze sterve, gelijk zijn broeders! Zo ging Thamar heen, en bleef in haar vaders huis. 12Als nu vele dagen verlopen waren, stierf de dochter van Sua, de huisvrouw van Juda; daarna troostte zich Juda, en ging op tot zijn schaapscheerders naar Timna toe, hij en Hira, zijn vriend, de Adullamiet. 13En men gaf Thamar te kennen, zeggende: Zie, uw schoonvader gaat op naar Timna, om zijn schapen te scheren. 14Toen legde zij de klederen van haar weduwschap van zich af, en zij bedekte zich met een sluier, en bewond zich, en zette zich aan den ingang der twee fonteinen, die op den weg naar Timna is; want zij zag, dat Sela groot geworden was, en zij hem niet ter vrouw was gegeven. 15Als Juda haar zag, zo hield hij haar voor een hoer, overmits zij haar aangezicht bedekt had. 16En hij week tot haar naar den weg, en zeide: Kom toch, laat mij tot u ingaan; want hij wist niet, dat zij zijn schoondochter was. En zij zeide: Wat zult gij mij geven, dat gij tot mij ingaat? 17En hij zeide: Ik zal u een geitenbok van de kudde zenden. En zij zeide: Zo gij pand zult geven, totdat gij hem zendt. 18Toen zeide hij: Wat pand is het, dat ik u geven zal? En zij zeide: Uw zegelring en uw snoer en uw staf, die in uw hand is; hetwelk hij haar gaf, en ging tot haar in; en zij ontving bij hem. 19En zij maakte zich op, en ging heen, en legde haar sluier van zich af, en zij trok aan de klederen van haar weduwschap. 20En Juda zond den geitenbok door de hand van zijn vriend, den Adullamiet, om het pand uit de hand der vrouw te nemen; maar hij vond haar niet. 21En hij vraagde de lieden van haar plaats, zeggende: Waar is de hoer, die bij deze twee fonteinen aan den weg was? En zij zeiden: Hier is geen hoer geweest. 22En hij keerde weder tot Juda, en zeide: Ik heb haar niet gevonden; en ook zeiden de lieden van die plaats: Hier is geen hoer geweest. 23Toen zeide Juda: Zij neme het voor zich, opdat wij misschien niet tot verachting worden; zie, ik heb deze bok gezonden; maar gij hebt haar niet gevonden. 24En het geschiedde omtrent na drie maanden, dat men Juda te kennen gaf, zeggende: Thamar, uw schoondochter, heeft gehoereerd, en ook zie, zij is zwanger van hoererij. Toen zeide Juda: Breng ze hervoor, dat zij verbrand worde! 25Als zij voorgebracht werd, schikte zij tot haar schoonvader, om te zeggen: Bij den man, wiens deze dingen zijn, ben ik zwanger; en zij zeide: Beken toch, wiens deze zegelring, en deze snoeren, en deze staf zijn. 26En Juda kende ze, en zeide: Zij is rechtvaardiger dan ik, daarom, omdat ik haar aan mijn zoon Sela niet gegeven heb. En hij bekende haar voortaan niet meer. 27En het geschiedde ten tijde, als zij baren zou, ziet, zo waren tweelingen in haar buik. 28En het geschiedde, als zij baarde, dat een de hand uitgaf; en de vroedvrouw nam dezelve, en zij bond een scharlaken draad om zijn hand, zeggende: Deze komt het eerst uit. 29Maar het geschiedde, als hij zijn hand weder intoog, ziet, zo kwam zijn broeder uit; en zij zeide: Hoe zijt gij doorgebroken? op u is de breuke! en men noemde zijn naam Perez. 30En daarna kwam zijn broeder uit, om wiens hand de scharlaken draad was; en men noemde zijn naam Zera.