“She took off the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.