[I](Genesis 38)
Tamar was the daughter-in-law of Judah, the one whose husband died, whose brother in law Onan was supposed to raise up an heir with her. (This was so his possessions could remain in his family via an heir.) He instead simply used her for sex but pulled out, not doing his duty by denying his brother an heir, and God killed Onan for this. Judah was supposed to provide her a husband from one of his sons, but when he came of age, he failed to do so. She veiled herself and pretended to be a cult prostitute where she knew Judah would be at a certain time. Judah hired her, but didn’t have the goods to pay her with (a goat from his flock), so he left his signet, cord, and staff with her as collateral, and left to get his goat. She then bailed with his stuff. He sent his servants out to look for the cult prostitute to get his signet, cord, and staff back, but couldn’t find her, and didn’t look too hard because he didn’t want to be exposed and humiliated by having his servants ask all the people there if they saw a prostitute with his signet.
Later, Tamar was found to be pregnant, and Judah got super pissed and asked for her to be burned, and she brings out his stuff, and saying that the man whose stuff that was ought to be punished as well, and Judah was humiliated in front of everyone and admitted that he wronged her by not fulfilling his promise to her to provide her a husband.[/I]