Genesis 38:19

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Then she got up and left, took off her veil, and put back on her widow's garments.

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  • Gen 38:14 : 14 So she took off her widow's garments, covered herself with a veil, wrapped herself up, and sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. She saw that Shelah had grown up, but she had not been given to him as a wife.
  • 2 Sam 14:2 : 2 So Joab sent to Tekoa and brought a wise woman from there. He said to her, "Please act like you are in mourning. Put on mourning clothes and do not anoint yourself with oil. Behave as if you have been mourning for the dead for a long time.
  • 2 Sam 14:5 : 5 The king said to her, "What is troubling you?" She replied, "Truly, I am a widow; my husband has died.

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  • Gen 38:11-18
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    85%

    11Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, 'Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up,' for he thought, 'He might die too, just like his brothers.' So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

    12After a long time, Judah's wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he went up to Timnah to his sheep shearers, accompanied by his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

    13When Tamar was told, 'Your father-in-law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,'

    14So she took off her widow's garments, covered herself with a veil, wrapped herself up, and sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. She saw that Shelah had grown up, but she had not been given to him as a wife.

    15When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, because she had covered her face.

    16He turned aside to her by the roadside and said, 'Come now, let me sleep with you.' He did not know she was his daughter-in-law. She asked, 'What will you give me to sleep with you?'

    17He replied, 'I will send you a young goat from my flock.' She said, 'Will you give me something as a pledge until you send it?'

    18He asked, 'What pledge should I give you?' She answered, 'Your seal and its cord, and the staff in your hand.' So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she conceived by him.

  • Gen 38:20-27
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    20Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite to retrieve the pledge from the woman, but he could not find her.

    21He asked the men of the place, 'Where is the prostitute who was by the road at Enaim?' They replied, 'There has been no prostitute here.'

    22So he returned to Judah and said, 'I couldn’t find her. Furthermore, the men of the place said, "There has been no prostitute here."'

    23Judah said, 'Let her keep what she has, or we will become a laughingstock. After all, I sent her this young goat, but you didn’t find her.'

    24About three months later, Judah was told, 'Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant as a result.' Judah said, 'Bring her out and let her be burned!'

    25As she was being brought out, she sent a message to her father-in-law, saying, 'I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.' And she added, 'Please examine them. Whose seal, cord, and staff are these?'

    26Judah recognized them and said, 'She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.' And he did not have relations with her again.

    27When the time came for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb.

  • Judg 11:37-38
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    37She also said to her father, 'Let me do this one thing: Allow me two months to roam the hills and weep with my friends because I will never marry.'

    38He said, 'Go,' and he sent her away for two months. She and her friends went to the hills and wept because she would never marry.

  • Gen 39:12-16
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    12She caught him by his garment and said, "Sleep with me!" But Joseph left his garment in her hand, ran away, and went outside.

    13When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and fled outside,

    14she called her household servants and said to them, "Look, this Hebrew man has been brought to us to mock us! He came to me to lie with me, but I screamed loudly.

    15When he heard me raise my voice and scream, he left his garment beside me and ran outside."

    16She kept his garment beside her until his master came home.

  • Gen 39:18
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    18But when I raised my voice and screamed, he left his garment beside me and fled outside."

  • 2 Sam 13:18-19
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    18Now she was wearing a richly ornamented robe, for this was how the virgin daughters of the king dressed in those days. So his servant put her out and bolted the door after her.

    19Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the ornamented robe she was wearing. She put her hand on her head and went away, weeping loudly as she went.

  • Gen 38:1-2
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    1At that time, Judah left his brothers and turned aside to a certain Adullamite man named Hirah.

    2There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. He married her and had relations with her.

  • Ruth 3:14-15
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    14So she lay at his feet until morning but got up before anyone could recognize another. For he said, 'Let it not be known that a woman came to the threshing floor.'

    15And he said, 'Bring me the cloak that you are wearing and hold it out.' So she held it out, and he measured out six measures of barley and placed it on her. Then he went into the town.

  • Gen 38:8
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    8Then Judah said to Onan, 'Lie with your brother's widow, perform your duty as her brother-in-law, and produce offspring for your brother.'

  • Judg 19:28
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    28He said to her, "Get up, let us go." But there was no answer. So he put her on the donkey, and the man set out for home.

  • Josh 2:21
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    21She said, "Let it be as you say." So she sent them away, and they departed. Then she tied the scarlet cord in the window.

  • Gen 29:35
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    35She conceived yet again and gave birth to a son and said, 'This time I will praise the LORD.' Therefore, she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children.

  • Judg 19:2
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    2But his concubine was unfaithful to him and left him, going to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. She stayed there for four months.

  • Ruth 1:18
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    18When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to persuade her.

  • Deut 22:14
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    14accusing her of misconduct and giving her a bad name by saying, 'I married this woman, but when I came to her, I did not find proof of her virginity,'

  • Gen 38:6
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    6Judah arranged a wife for Er, his firstborn son. Her name was Tamar.