¹⁴ So she took off her widow’s garments, covered herself with a veil and wrapped herself, and ^(A)sat in an open place which was on the way to Timnah; for she saw ^(B)that Shelah was grown, and she was not given to him as a wife.

²⁶ So Judah ^(A)acknowledged them and said, ^(B)“She has been more righteous than I, because ^(C)I did not give her to Shelah my son.” And he ^(D)never knew her again.

¹¹ Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, ^(A)“Remain a widow in your father’s house till my son Shelah is grown.” For he said, “Lest he also die like his brothers.” And Tamar went and dwelt ^(B)in her father’s house.

¹² Now in the process of time the daughter of Shua, Judah’s wife, died; and Judah ^(C)was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. ¹³ And it was told Tamar, saying, “Look, your father-in-law is going up ^(D)to Timnah to shear his sheep.”

⁶⁵ for she had said to the servant, “Who is this man walking in the field to meet us?”

The servant said, “It is my master.” So she took a veil and covered herself.

²⁵ You built your high places ^(A)at the head of every road, and made your beauty to be abhorred. You offered yourself to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your acts of harlotry.