Genesis 38:11

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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

Cross References

Leviticus 22:13

But if the priest’s daughter becomes widowed or divorced, has no children, and returns to her father’s house as in her youth, she may share her father’s food. But no outsider may share it.

Genesis 38:14

So she took off her widow’s clothes, veiled her face,  covered herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.