Then Judahsaidto his daughter-in-lawTamar,"Remaina widowin your father'shouseuntilmy sonShelahgrowsup"; for he thought,"[I am afraid] that he toomay dielike his brothers."So Tamarwentand livedin her father'shouse.
So she removedher widow'sgarmentsand covered[herself] with a veil,and wrappedherself, and satin the gatewayof Enaim,whichis on the roadto Timnah;for she sawthat Shelahhad grownup, and she had not been givento him as a wife.
But ifa priest'sdaughterbecomesa widowor divorced,and hasnochildand returnsto her father'shouseas in her youth,she shall eatof her father'sfood;but nolaymanshall eatof it.
