Kebra Nagast

" kinsfolk, Keep carefully this Israelitish woman, and let her not defile herself with an alien. For I have a and if God will let him grow up I will give him to her." And whilst Tamar was living as a widow little son, in her father's house, behold, Judah her father-in-law came to the place where his sheepfolds were to shear wool with great satisfaction and pleasure. And when Tamar heard that her father-in-law had come, she cast away from her the apparel of widowhood, and she put herself in splendid apparel, and she veiled herself after the manner of a harlot, and she followed him and sat down. And he sent a message to her, saying, " I wish to company with thee." And she said unto him, '' What wilt thou give me for my hire " And he said send to thee in the morning early a " and she said unto him, " Give me a sucking lamb pledge until thou givest me the lamb." And he gave her [his] staff, and ring, and the close-fitting cap that was under his headdress. And he companied with her, and she took [the things] and departed unto her house. And he sent the lamb unto her early in the morning. And his servants enquired and said, " Where is the house of the harlot ? " And they said unto him, There is no harlot in our town " and they returned into their city and told him that there was no harlot " in their town. And Judah said, Leave ye [it] the Will of God be done." Then Tamar conceived and they told her father-inlaw that she had conceived. And he went and took the elders of Israel to the father of Tamar, and he said unto him, " Bring to me thy daughter who hath conceived that we may stone her with stones even as Moses commanded, for she hath brought reproach upon the house of Israel." And the father and kinsfolk of Tamar told her that her father-in-law spake thus. And she brought out the ring, and the staff, and the cap, and gave [them] to her father and her kinsfolk, and she said unto her, " ? I will ; 6 ; ; '34