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Genesis 38:19

17 “I will send you a young goat from my flock,” Judah answered. But she replied, “Only if you leave me something as a pledge until you send it.”

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

Then Tamar got up and departed. And she removed her veil and put on her widow’s garments again.

20 Now when Judah sent his friend Hirah the Adullamite with the young goat to collect the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her.

21 He asked the men of that place, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “No shrine prostitute has been here,” they answered.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Then Tamar got up and departed. And she removed her veil and put on her widow’s garments again.
KJV
And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
WEB
She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
ASV
And she arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
DARBY
And she arose and went away; and she laid by her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
BLB
And she arose, and went away, and she took off her veil from her, and she put on the garments of her widowhood.
ÅB
Og hun sto opp og gikk sin vei, og hun la sitt slør av seg og tok på seg sine enkeklær.
OTB
Så reiste hun seg og gikk bort, tok av sløret, og tok på seg enkeplaggene igjen.
B1930
Og hun stod op og gikk sin vei, og hun la sitt slør av sig og tok på sig sine enkeklær.

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  • Genesis 38:14

    she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.

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  • 2 Samuel 14:2

    So Joab sent to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner; put on clothes for mourning and do not anoint yourself with oil. Act like a woman who has mourned for the dead a long time.

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  • 2 Samuel 14:5

    “What troubles you?” the king asked her. “Indeed,” she said, “I am a widow, for my husband is dead.

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