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Judah and Tamar

Genesis 38:19

In 11 translations

BSB
Then Tamar got up and departed. And she removed her veil and put on her widow’s garments again.
KJV
And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
WEB
She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
ASV
And she arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
LSV
and she rises, and goes, and turns aside her veil from off her, and puts on the garments of her widowhood.
YLT
and she riseth, and goeth, and turneth aside her vail from off her, and putteth on the garments of her widowhood.
DBY
And she arose and went away; and she laid by her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
DRC
And she arose and went her way: and putting off the apparel which she had taken, put on the garments of her widowhood.
GNV
Then she rose, and went and put her vaile from her and put on her widowes raiment.
JPS
And she arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
LXXE
And she arose and departed, and took her veil from off her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וַתָּ֣קָם וַתֵּ֔לֶךְ וַתָּ֥סַר צְעִיפָ֖הּ מֵעָלֶ֑יהָ וַתִּלְבַּ֖שׁ בִּגְדֵ֥י אַלְמְנוּתָֽהּ׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἀναστᾶσα ἀπῆλθε, καὶ περιείλετο τὸ θέριστρον αὐτῆς ἀφʼ ἑαυτῆς, καὶ ἐνεδύσατο τὰ ἱμάτια τῆς χηρεύσεως αὐτῆς.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Genesis 38:14she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given…
  • 2 Samuel 14:5“What troubles you?” the king asked her. “Indeed,” she said, “I am a widow, for my husband is dead.
  • 2 Samuel 14:2So Joab sent to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner; put on clothes for mourning and do not anoint yourself with oil. Act like a woman who has mourned for the dead a…

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