Chp. 38 verses 1 - 25: Yehudah marries and he has three children. Two of them die while being married to Tamar. He tells her that she should wait for the third son to become older and then he would marry her, but it was only a ruse. Yehudah's wife dies and he goes to Timna to shear his sheep. Tamar disguises herself as a harlot, waits for him on the road, and she seduces him. She takes three items from him as surety for payment of her services. He sends his friend to pay the debt and retrieve his things, but no harlot can be found. Tamar conceives twins and he wants to put her to death because of her harlotry. She sends him the three items that she had taken for collateral and says that she is pregnant from the man who owns these.