Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons;
Then Avraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, *Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?*
Then Yehudah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, *Remain a widow in your father's house, until Shelach, my son, is grown up;* for he said, *Lest he also die, like his brothers.* Tamar went and lived in her father's house.
would you therefore wait until they were grown? would you therefore stay from having husbands? nay, my daughters, for it grieves me much for your sakes, for the hand of the LORD is gone forth against me.