Genesis 38:11

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, ¹  “I don’t want him to die like his brothers.” ²  So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.

Genesis 38:26

38:26 Judah recognized them and said, “She is more upright ³  than I am, because I wouldn’t give her to Shelah my son.” He did not have sexual relations with her ⁴  again.

¹ tn Heb “said.”

² tn Heb “Otherwise he will die, also he, like his brothers.”

³ tn Traditionally “more righteous”; cf. NCV, NRSV, NLT “more in the right.”

⁴ tn Heb “and he did not add again to know her.” Here “know” is a euphemism for sexual intercourse.