Genesis 38:11-13

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹¹ Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, ‘Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up’—for he feared that he too would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

¹² In course of time the wife of Judah, Shua’s daughter, died; when Judah’s time of mourning was over,^[a] he went up to Timnah to his sheep-shearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. ¹³ When Tamar was told, ‘Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep’,