Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.

Till shelah

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Bible References

Till shelah

Ruth 1:11
But Naomi responded, "Go back, my daughters. Why go with me? Are there still sons to be born to me as future husbands for you?

In her

Leviticus 22:13
If the priest's daughter is a widow, or is divorced and childless, so that she has to return to her father's house as in her younger days, she may eat her father's food, but no resident alien may eat it.

General references

Luke 20:28
and asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, the man should marry the widow and have children for his brother.

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