Genesis 38:13

38:13 Tamar was told, ¹  “Look, your father-in-law is going up ²  to Timnah to shear his sheep.”

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, ³  “I don’t want him to die like his brothers.” ⁴  So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.

[38:13]  ¹ tn Heb “And it was told to Tamar, saying.”

[38:13]  ² tn The active participle indicates the action was in progress or about to begin.

[38:11]  ³ tn Heb “said.”

[38:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “Otherwise he will die, also he, like his brothers.”