Genesis 38:19

World English Bible (2000)

She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

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  • Gen 38:14 : 14 She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife.
  • 2 Sam 14:2 : 2 Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched there a wise woman, and said to her, "Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don't anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.
  • 2 Sam 14:5 : 5 The king said to her, "What ails you?" She answered, "Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

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  • Gen 38:11-18
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    85%

    11Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;" for he said, "Lest he also die, like his brothers." Tamar went and lived in her father's house.

    12After many days, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.

    13It was told Tamar, saying, "Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."

    14She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife.

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

    16He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you," for he didn't know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"

    17He said, "I will send you a young goat from the flock." She said, "Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?"

    18He said, "What pledge will I give you?" She said, "Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand." He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.

  • Gen 38:20-27
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    20Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, but he didn't find her.

    21Then he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?" They said, "There has been no prostitute here."

    22He returned to Judah, and said, "I haven't found her; and also the men of the place said, 'There has been no prostitute here.'"

    23Judah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven't found her."

    24It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." Judah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."

    25When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, "By the man, whose these are, I am with child." She also said, "Please discern whose are these--the signet, and the cords, and the staff."

    26Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous than I, because I didn't give her to Shelah, my son." He knew her again no more.

    27It happened in the time of her travail, that behold, twins were in her womb.

  • Judg 11:37-38
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    37She said to her father, "Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions."

    38He said, "Go." He sent her away for two months: and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.

  • Gen 39:12-16
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    12She caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me!" He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.

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

    14she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, "Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.

    15It happened, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside."

    16She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.

  • Gen 39:18
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    18and it happened, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside."

  • 2 Sam 13:18-19
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    74%

    18She had a garment of various colors on her; for with such robes were the king's daughters who were virgins dressed. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.

    19Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various colors that was on her; and she laid her hand on her head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went.

  • Gen 38:1-2
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    74%

    1It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

    2Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her, and went in to her.

  • Ruth 3:14-15
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    72%

    14She lay at his feet until the morning. She rose up before one could discern another. For he said, "Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor."

    15He said, "Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it." She held it; and he measured six [measures] of barley, and laid it on her; and he went into the city.

  • Gen 38:8
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    8Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother."

  • Judg 19:28
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    28He said to her, "Get up, and let us be going!" but no one answered. Then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up, and went to his place.

  • Josh 2:21
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    21She said, "According to your words, so be it." She sent them away, and they departed. She tied the scarlet line in the window.

  • Gen 29:35
    70%

    35She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, "This time will I praise Yahweh." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

  • Judg 19:2
    70%

    2His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father's house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there the space of four months.

  • Ruth 1:18
    69%

    18When she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking to her.

  • Deut 22:14
    69%

    14and accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name on her, and says, "I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn't find in her the tokens of virginity;"

  • Gen 38:6
    69%

    6Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.