13It was told Tamar, saying, |Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.|


In Context

10 The thing which he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he killed him also.

11 Then 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.

12 After many days, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.

13 It was told Tamar, saying, |Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.|

14 She 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.

15 When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

Genesis 38:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

38:13And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

38:13When Tamar was told, "Your father-in- law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,"

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

38:13And it was told Thamar that her father in law was come up to Thamnas to shear his sheep.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

38:13And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnah to shear his sheep.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

38:13And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

38:13And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold, thy father in law goeth up to Timnah to shear his sheep.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

38:13And it was told to Tamar, saying, Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnath, to shear his sheep.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

38:13And it is declared to Tamar, saying, 'Lo, thy husband's father is going up to Timnath to shear his flock;'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

38:13And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold your father in law goes up to Timnath to shear his sheep.