18 Amnon’s servant threw her out and bolted the door behind her. Now Tamar was wearing a long-sleeved[a] garment, because this is what the king’s virgin daughters wore. 19 Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long-sleeved garment she was wearing. She put her hand on her head(A) and went away crying out.

20 Her brother Absalom said to her: “Has your brother Amnon been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister. He is your brother. Don’t take this thing to heart.” So Tamar lived as a desolate woman(B) in the house of her brother Absalom.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 13:18 Or an ornamented; Gn 37:3

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