9. Then she took the baking tray and served the cakes to him, but he refused to eat.Amnon said, “Send everyone away.” So they all left him.
10. Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the bedroom that I may eat from your hand.” So Tamar took the cakes that she had made and brought them in the bedroom to Amnon her brother.
11. When she brought them close for him to eat, he took hold of her and said, “Come, lie with me, my sister.”
12. She pled with him, “No, my brother, do not violate me, for such a thing is not to be done in Israel. Do not carry out this awful thing.
13. As for me, where could I escape my disgrace? And you would be like one of the fools in Israel. Now, please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”
14. But he refused to listen to her. So, being stronger than her, he overpowered her and lay with her.
15. Then Amnon hated her greatly, so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, “Get up, go away.”
16. She said to him, “No, because this great offense of dismissing me is worse than the other which you did to me.”But he refused to listen to her.