Pictured to the left is a copy of a version of the Holy Bible, known as the REVISED STANDARD VERSION ( RSV ). Genesis 38:12-19 read as follows:
"12 In course of time the wife of Judah, Shua's daughter, died; and when Judah was comforted, he went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. 13 And when Tamar was told, 'Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,' 14 she put off her widow's garments, and put on a veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him in marriage. 15 When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot, for she had covered her face. 16 He went over to her at the road side, and said, 'Come, let me come in to you,' for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, 'What will you give me, that you may come in to me?' 17 He answered, 'I will send you a kid from the flock.' And she said, 'Will you give me a pledge, till you send it?' 18 He said, 'What pledge shall I give you?' She replied, 'Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.' So he gave them to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him. 19 Then she arose and went away, and taking off her veil she put on the garments of her widowhood."
In this passage from the Holy Bible, we have a case of mistaken identity.
Judah thought Tamar was a harlot, and went in to her ( see verses thirteen through eighteen ). Tamar gave birth to twins, Perez and Zerah ( see verses twenty-seven through thirty, and please read all of chapter thirty-eight to get the immediate context ). Please click on the "Full Screen" symbol, at the lower right corner of the image below, to read today's bulletin regarding prostitutes, for example:
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