NET Bible
"When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face."
— Genesis 38:15, NET Bible
“When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.”
“When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot; for she had covered her face. ”
“When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.”
“When Juda saw her, he thought she was a harlot: for she had covered her face, lest she should be known.”
“When Judah saw her he took her to be a loose woman of the town, because her face was covered.”
“When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.”
After some time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. After Judah was consoled, he left for Timnah to visit his sheepshearers, along with his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
Tamar was told,“Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”
So she removed her widow’s clothes and covered herself with a veil. She wrapped herself and sat at the entrance to Enaim which is on the way to Timnah.(She did this because she saw that she had not been given to Shelah as a wife, even though he had now grown up.)
When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.
He turned aside to her along the road and said,“Come, please, I want to sleep with you.”(He did not realize it was his daughter-in-law.) She asked,“What will you give me so that you may sleep with me?”
He replied,“I’ll send you a young goat from the flock.” She asked,“Will you give me a pledge until you send it?”
He said,“What pledge should I give you?” She replied,“Your seal, your cord, and the staff that’s in your hand.” So he gave them to her, then slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.