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OET (OET-LV) And_recognized Yəhūdāh and_he/it_said she_is_righteous more_than_I if/because on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in yes/correct/thus/so not give_her to_Shēlāh son_my and_not he_repeated again to_know_her.
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38:26 Note: BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
OET (OET-RV) When Yehudah recognised the items, he admitted, “She’s more in the right than I am, because I didn’t give my son Shelah to her.” But he didn’t lie with her again.
וַיַּכֵּ֣ר יְהוּדָ֗ה
and,recognized Yehuda
Alternate translation: “Judah saw that the things she had were his”
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר֙
and=he/it_said
Alternate translation: “and admitted,”
צָֽדְקָ֣ה מִמֶּ֔נִּי
righteous more_~_than,I
Alternate translation: “She is right, and I am wrong,”
כִּֽי־עַל־כֵּ֥ן לֹא־נְתַתִּ֖יהָ לְשֵׁלָ֣ה בְנִ֑י
that/for/because/then/when on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in yes/correct/thus/so not give,her to,Shelah son,my
Be consistent here with how you spelled Shelah in verses 5, 11, 14. Alternate translation: “because I refused to have my son Shelah marry her as I was required to!” or “because I did not let her marry my son Shelah as I was required to!”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / euphemism
וְלֹֽא יָסַ֥ף ע֖וֹד לְדַעְתָּֽה
and=not he_repeated again/more to,know,her
Consider again how you translated the idiom “knew” in the book of Genesis. See Gen 4:1 (and note), 17, 25; 19:8; 24:16; 38:26. It may be necessary to translate 38:26 differently, since the relationship in this verse was outside of marriage. Compare how you translated a related idiom (“went to”) in verse 18. Alternate translation: “So they released her and after that he never again slept with her” or “… never had sexual relations with Tamar again.”
38:26 She is more righteous than I am: Judah acknowledged that he had shirked his responsibility to provide an heir. It was sinful for Judah to go to a prostitute, but Tamar had a legal right to be the mother of Judah’s child and had acted on that right. In the book of Ruth, the elders analogously blessed the marriage of Boaz and Ruth, praying that God would make Ruth like Tamar (Ruth 4:12; cp. Matt 1:3, 5).
OET (OET-LV) And_recognized Yəhūdāh and_he/it_said she_is_righteous more_than_I if/because on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in yes/correct/thus/so not give_her to_Shēlāh son_my and_not he_repeated again to_know_her.
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38:26 Note: BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
OET (OET-RV) When Yehudah recognised the items, he admitted, “She’s more in the right than I am, because I didn’t give my son Shelah to her.” But he didn’t lie with her again.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.