Genesis 38

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1 Naquele tempo, Judá, apartando-se dos seus irmãos, foi para a casa de um homem de Odolão, chamado Hira.	1 About that time Judah parted from his brothers and pitched his tent near a certain Adullamite named Hirah.
2 Judá viu ali a filha de um cananeu, de nome Sué, e desposou-a, unindo-se a ela.	2 There he met the daughter of a Canaanite named Shua, married her, and had relations with her.
3 Ela concebeu e deu à luz um filho, ao qual chamou Her.	3 She conceived and bore a son, whom she named Er.
4 Concebeu novamente e deu ao mundo um filho, e deu-lhe o nome de Onã.	4 Again she conceived and bore a son, whom she named Onan.
5 E teve ainda um filho, que chamou Sela. Judá estava em Achzib na ocasião desse nascimento.	5 Then she bore still another son, whom she named Shelah. They were in Chezib when he was born.
6 Judá escolheu para Her, seu primogênito, uma mulher chamada Tamar.	6 Judah got a wife named Tamar for his first-born, Er.
7 Her, porém, o primogênito de Judá, era mau aos olhos do Senhor, e o Senhor o feriu de morte.	7 But Er, Judah's first-born, greatly offended the LORD; so the LORD took his life.
8 Então Judá disse a Onã: "Vai, toma a mulher de teu irmão, cumpre teu dever de levirato e suscita uma posteridade a teu irmão."	8 Then Judah said to Onan, "Unite with your brother's widow, in fulfillment of your duty as brother-in-law, and thus preserve your brother's line."
9 Mas Onã, que sabia que essa posteridade não seria dele, maculava-se por terra cada vez que se unia à mulher do seu irmão, para não dar a ele posteridade.	9 Onan, however, knew that the descendants would not be counted as his; so whenever he had relations with his brother's widow, he wasted his seed on the ground, to avoid contributing offspring for his brother.
10 Seu comportamento desagradou ao Senhor, que o feriu de morte também.	10 What he did greatly offended the LORD, and the LORD took his life too.
11 E Judá disse a Tamar, sua nora: "Conserva-te viúva em casa de teu pai até que meu filho Sela se torne adulto." "Não é bom, pensava ele consigo, que também ele morra como seus irmãos." E Tamar voltou a habitar na casa paterna.	11 Thereupon Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Stay as a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up"--for he feared that Shelah also might die like his brothers. So Tamar went to live in her father's house.
12 Muito tempo depois, morreu a filha de Sué, mulher de Judá. Passado o luto, subiu Judá a Tamna para a tosquia de suas ovelhas, com seu amigo Hira, o odolamita.	12 Years passed, and Judah's wife, the daughter of Shua, died. After Judah completed the period of mourning, he went up to Timnah for the shearing of his sheep, in company with his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
13 E foi noticiado a Tamar: "Eis que o teu sogro sobe a Tamna para a tosquia de suas ovelhas."	13 When Tamar was told that her father-in-law was on his way up to Timnah to shear his sheep,
14 Depôs ela então os seus vestidos de viúva, cobriu-se de um véu, e, assim disfarçada, assentou-se à entrada de Enaim, que se encontra no caminho de Tamna, pois via que Sela tinha crescido e não lha tinham dado por mulher.	14 she took off her widow's garb, veiled her face by covering herself with a shawl, and sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she was aware that, although Shelah was now grown up, she had not been given to him in marriage.
15 Judá, vendo-a, julgou tratar-se de uma prostituta, porque tinha o rosto coberto.	15 When Judah saw her, he mistook her for a harlot, since she had covered her face.
16 E, chegando-se a ela no caminho, disse: "Queres juntar-te comigo?" {Ignorava ele que se tratava de sua nora.} Ela respondeu: "O que me darás para juntar-me contigo?"	16 So he went over to her at the roadside, and not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he said, "Come, let me have intercourse with you." She replied, "What will you pay me for letting you have intercourse with me?"
17 "Mandar-te-ei um cabrito do meu rebanho." "Está bem; mas dá-me então um penhor, até que o tenhas enviado."	17 He answered, "I will send you a kid from the flock." "Very well," she said, "provided you leave a pledge until you send it."
18 "Que penhor queres que eu te dê?" "Teu anel, teu cordão e o bastão que tens na mão." Ele os entregou; em seguida, aproximou-se dela e ela concebeu.	18 Judah asked, "What pledge am I to give to you?" She answered, "Your seal and cord, and the staff you carry." So he gave them to her and had intercourse with her, and she conceived by him.
19 E levantando-se, partiu; tirou o seu véu e retomou seus vestidos de viúva.	19 When she went away, she took off her shawl and put on her widow's garb again.
20 E Judá mandou-lhe o cabrito por seu amigo, o odolamita, para retirar o penhor das mãos daquela mulher, mas ele, não a encontrando,	20 Judah sent the kid by his friend the Adullamite to recover the pledge from the woman; but he could not find her.
21 perguntou aos habitantes do lugar: "Onde está aquela prostituta que estava em Enaim, à beira do caminho?" Responderam-lhe: "Não há prostituta nesse lugar!"	21 So he asked the men of the place, "Where is the temple prostitute, the one by the roadside in Enaim?" But they answered, "There has never been a temple prostitute here."
22 Ele voltou para junto de Judá: "Não a encontrei, disse ele, e os moradores daquele lugar disseram-me que não havia nenhuma prostituta ali."	22 He went back to Judah and told him, "I could not find her; and besides, the men of the place said there was no temple prostitute there."
23 "Guarde ela o meu penhor, respondeu Judá, não nos tornemos ridículos! Eu mandei o cabrito; tu, porém, não a encontraste".	23 "Let her keep the things," Judah replied; "otherwise we shall become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her the kid, even though you were unable to find her."
24 Mais ou menos três meses depois, vieram dizer a Judá: "Tamar, tua nora, conduziu-se mal: vê-se que está grávida." Judá respondeu: "Tirai-a para fora, que ela seja queimada!"	24 About three months later, Judah was told that his daughter-in-law Tamar had played the harlot and was then with child from her harlotry. "Bring her out," cried Judah; "she shall be burned."
25 E, enquanto era conduzida, ela mandou dizer ao seu sogro: "Concebi do homem a quem pertence isto: examine bem, ajuntou ela, de quem são este anel, este cordão e este bastão."	25 But as they were bringing her out, she sent word to her father-in-law, "It is by the man to whom these things belong that I am with child. Please verify," she added, "whose seal and cord and whose staff these are."
26 Judá, reconhecendo-os, exclamou: "Ela é mais justa do que eu; pois que não a dei ao meu filho Sela." E não a conheceu mais.	26 Judah recognized them and said, "She is more in the right than I am, since I did not give her to my son Shelah." But he had no further relations with her.
27 E, na ocasião de dar à luz, eis que ela trazia dois gêmeos no seu ventre.	27 When the time of her delivery came, she was found to have twins in her womb.
28 No parto, saindo uma mão, a parteira tomou-a e atou nela um fio vermelho, dizendo: "Este é o que saiu primeiro!"	28 While she was giving birth, one infant put out his hand; and the midwife, taking a crimson thread, tied it on his hand, to note that this one came out first.
29 Mas, como ele retirasse a mão, saiu o seu irmão. "Que brecha fizeste! exclamou a parteira: Que a brecha esteja sobre ti!"	29 But as he withdrew his hand, his brother came out; and she said, "What a breach you have made for yourself!" So he was called Perez.
30 E chamou-se-lhe Farés. Em seguida, veio o seu irmão, com o fio vermelho atado na mão. Deu-se-lhe o nome de Zara.	30 Afterward his brother came out; he was called Zerah.