38:11 Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until Shelah my son grows up.” For he thought, 4 “I don’t want him to die like his brothers.” 5 So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.
1 tn Heb “the firstborn.”
2 tn Heb “Look, I lied down with my father. Let’s make him drink wine again tonight.”
3 tn Heb “And go, lie down with him and we will keep alive from our father descendants.”
4 tn Heb “said.”
5 tn Heb “Otherwise he will die, also he, like his brothers.”
7 tn Heb “men of skill.”
8 tn Heb “make them rulers.”