¹ Now at that time, Judah went away from his brothers and became the friend of a man of Adullam named Hirah.

² And there he saw the daughter of a certain man of Canaan named Shua, and took her as his wife.

³ And she gave birth to a son, and he gave him the name Er.

⁴ And again she gave birth to a son, and he gave him the name Onan.

⁵ Then she had another son, to whom she gave the name Shelah; she was at Chezib when the birth took place.

⁶ And Judah took a wife for his first son Er, and her name was Tamar.

⁷ Now Er, Judah's first son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that he put him to death.

⁸ Then Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife and do what it is right for a husband's brother to do; make her your wife and get offspring for your brother.

⁹ But Onan, seeing that the offspring would not be his, went in to his brother's wife, but let his seed go on to the earth, so that he might not get offspring for his brother.

¹⁰ And what he did was evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that he put him to death, like his brother.

¹¹ Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Go back to your father's house and keep yourself as a widow till my son Shelah becomes a man: for he had in his mind the thought that death might come to him as it had come to his brothers. So Tamar went back to her father's house.

¹² And after a time, Bath-shua, Judah's wife, came to her end; and after Judah was comforted for her loss, he went to Timnah, where they were cutting the wool of his sheep, and his friend Hirah of Adullam went with him.

¹³ And when Tamar had news that her father-in-law was going up to Timnah to the wool-cutting,

¹⁴ She took off her widow's clothing, and covering herself with her veil, she took her seat near Enaim on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was now a man, but she had not been made his wife.

¹⁵ When Judah saw her he took her to be a loose woman of the town, because her face was covered.

¹⁶ And turning to her by the roadside, he said to her, Let me come in to you; for he had no idea that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What will you give me as my price?

¹⁷ And he said, I will give you a young goat from the flock. And she said, What will you give me as a sign till you send it?

¹⁸ And he said, What would you have? And she said, Your ring and its cord and the stick in your hand. So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she became with child by him.

¹⁹ Then she got up and went away and took off her veil and put on her widow's clothing.

²⁰ Then Judah sent his friend Hirah with the young goat, to get back the things which he had given as a sign to the woman: but she was not there.

²¹ And he put questions to the men of the place, saying, Where is the loose woman who was in Enaim by the wayside? And they said, There was no such woman there.

²² So he went back to Judah, and said, I have not seen her, and the men of the place say that there is no such woman there.

²³ And Judah said, Let her keep the things, so that we may not be shamed; I sent the young goat, but you did not see the woman.

²⁴ Now about three months after this, word came to Judah that Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had been acting like a loose woman and was with child. And Judah said, Take her out and let her be burned.

²⁵ And while she was being taken out, she sent word to her father-in-law, saying, The man whose property these things are, is the father of my child: say then, whose are this ring and this cord and this stick?

²⁶ Then Judah said openly that they were his, and said, She is more upright than I am, for I did not give her to Shelah my son. And he had no more connection with her.

²⁷ And when the time came for her to give birth, it was clear that there were two children in her body.

²⁸ And while she was in the act of giving birth, one of them put out his hand; and the woman who was with her put a red thread round his hand, saying, This one came out first.

²⁹ But then he took his hand back again, and his brother came first to birth: and the woman said, What an opening you have made for yourself! So he was named Perez.

³⁰ And then his brother came out, with the red thread round his hand, and he was named Zerah.

¹ Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely worked garments, for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

² He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.

³ They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, in the purple, in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, the work of the skillful workman.

⁴ They made shoulder straps for it, joined together. At the two ends it was joined together.

⁵ The skillfully woven band that was on it, with which to fasten it on, was of the same piece, like its work; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

⁶ They worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel.

⁷ He put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

⁸ He made the breastplate, the work of a skillful workman, like the work of the ephod; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.

⁹ It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span, and its breadth a span, being double.

¹⁰ They set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby, topaz, and beryl was the first row;

¹¹ and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;

¹² and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

¹³ and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold settings.

¹⁴ The stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, for the twelve tribes.

¹⁵ They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.

¹⁶ They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.

¹⁷ They put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.

¹⁸ The other two ends of the two braided chains they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, in its front.

¹⁹ They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which was toward the side of the ephod inward.

²⁰ They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its front, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.

²¹ They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

²² He made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.

²³ The opening of the robe in its midst was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not be torn.

²⁴ They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined linen.

²⁵ They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe, between the pomegranates;

²⁶ a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, around the skirts of the robe, to minister in, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

²⁷ They made the coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons,

²⁸ and the turban of fine linen, and the linen headbands of fine linen, and the linen breeches of fine twined linen,

²⁹ and the sash of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

³⁰ They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it a writing, like the engravings of a signet: "holy TO YAHWEH."

³¹ They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

³² Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished. The children of Israel did according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses; so they did.

³³ They brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent, with all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,

³⁴ the covering of rams' skins dyed red, the covering of sea cow hides, the veil of the screen,

³⁵ the ark of the testimony with its poles, the mercy seat,

³⁶ the table, all its vessels, the show bread,

³⁷ the pure lampstand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, all its vessels, the oil for the light,

³⁸ the golden altar, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door of the Tent,

³⁹ the bronze altar, its grating of brass, its poles, all of its vessels, the basin and its base,

⁴⁰ the hangings of the court, its pillars, its sockets, the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, its pins, all the instruments of the service of the tabernacle, for the Tent of Meeting,

⁴¹ the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.

⁴² According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.

⁴³ Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it as Yahweh had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.