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13 Someone told Tamar, ‘Your husband's father is going to Timnah to get the wool from his sheep.’

14 Tamar knew that Judah's son Shelah had now become a man. But Judah had not yet let Shelah marry her. So Tamar took off her widow's clothes and she put on other clothes. She covered her head with a veil. She did not want anyone to recognize her. Then she sat at the gate of Enaim. Enaim is a town on the road that goes to Timnah.

15 Judah saw her as she sat there. He thought that she was a prostitute, because she had covered her face.

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