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Genesis 38:19

She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

  • KJV King James Version

    And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And she arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

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Cross-references (3)

Passages linked to Genesis 38:19 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Genesis 38:14 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.
  • 2 Samuel 14:2 Joab sent to Tekoa, and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.
  • 2 Samuel 14:5 The king said to her, “What ails you?” She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

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Explain this verse (3 sources)

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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Judah sent the kid by the hand of…

And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite,.... Who went with him to Timnath, and was privy to all this wickedness, and kept the secret; but would have acted the more friendly and faithful part had he dissuaded him from it: him he employed to carry the kid he had promised, and not any of his servants, for the greater secrecy: and

to receive his pledge from the woman's hand; his signet, bracelets, and staff, or whatever they were:

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but he found her not; she was gone from the place where she sat, or where she retired to with Judah.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And she arose, and went away, and laid by…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 This was a very thin material used to cover…

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