Genesis 38:14

New Century Version

So she took off the clothes that showed she was a widow and covered her face with a veil to hide who she was. Then she sat down by the gate of Enaim on the road to Timnah. She did this because Judah’s younger son Shelah had grown up, but Judah had not made plans for her to marry him.

Cross References

Genesis 24:65

and asked the servant, “Who is that man walking in the field to meet us?” The servant answered, “That is my master.” So Rebekah covered her face with her veil.

Genesis 38:15

When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, because she had covered her face with a veil.

Genesis 38:19

When Tamar went home, she took off the veil that covered her face and put on the clothes that showed she was a widow.

Genesis 38:26

Judah recognized them and said, “She is more in the right than I. She did this because I did not give her to my son Shelah as I promised.” And Judah did not have sexual relations with her again.

Proverbs 7:10

Then the woman approached him, dressed like a prostitute and planning to trick him.

Proverbs 7:12

She was always out in the streets or in the city squares, waiting around on the corners of the streets.

Jeremiah 3:2

“Look up to the bare hilltops, Judah. Is there any place where you have not been a prostitute? You have sat by the road waiting for lovers, like an Arab in the desert. You made the land unclean, because you did evil and were like a prostitute.

Ezekiel 16:25

You built a place of worship at the beginning of every street. You made your beauty hateful, offering your body for sex to anyone who passed by, so your sexual sins became worse and worse.