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Genesis 38:19

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

She got up and left, then removed her veil and put her widow’s clothes back on.

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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.


‘What’s the matter? ’ the king asked her. ‘Sadly, I am a widow; my husband died,’ she said.


So Joab sent someone to Tekoa  to bring a wise  woman from there. He told her, ‘Pretend to be in mourning: dress in mourning clothes and don’t put on any oil.  Act like a woman who has been mourning for the dead for a long time.


‘What should I give you? ’ he asked. She answered, ‘Your signet ring, your cord, and the staff in your hand.’ So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.


When Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite in order to get back the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her.





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