Enaim

Enaim ("two springs") was a road station between Adullam and Timnah where Judah's widowed daughter-in-law Tamar staged a desperate gambit to secure her place in his family line (Genesis 38:14, 21). After Judah had repeatedly denied her the levirate marriage owed her, Tamar veiled herself and sat at the "entrance of Enaim." Judah mistook her for a shrine prostitute and slept with her, giving his signet, cord, and staff as pledge. When her pregnancy emerged and Judah ordered her burned for harlotry, she produced the pledge tokens and Judah confessed, "She is more righteous than I." Their twins Perez and Zerah became the leading clan of Judah; Perez stands in the genealogy of David and Jesus.