richard mcbee

Judah

Judah and Tamar - 24" X 30"
Oil on canvas by Richard McBee (2000)

14 So she took off her widow's garb, covered [her head] with a veil and covered her face, and
she sat down at the crossroads that were on the way to Timnah, for she saw that Shelah had
grown up, but as for her she was not given to him for a wife.
15 When Judah saw her, he thought she was a harlot, because she covered her face.
16 So he turned aside toward her to the road, and he said, "Get ready now, I will come to you," for he did not know that she was his daughter in law, and she said, "What will you give me that you should come to me?"
17 And he said, "I will send a kid from the herd," and she said, "[Only] if you give me a
pledge until you send [it]."
18 So he said, "What is the pledge that I should give you?" And she said, "Your signet, your cloak, and the staff that is in your hand." So he gave them to her, and he came to her, and she conceived his likeness.
Genesis 38