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19 After this, Tamar left there and she took off her veil. She put her widow's clothes on again.

20 Judah sent his friend Hirah, the Adullamite, to take a young goat back to where the woman had been. Judah wanted to get his special things back from the woman. But Hirah could not find the woman. 21 He asked some men who lived there, ‘Where is the temple prostitute who sat by the road at Enaim?’[a] But the men said, ‘There has not been any prostitute here.’

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  1. 38:21 A temple prostitute sat at a place where people worshipped foreign gods.