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
You must go back, my daughters, Naomi replied. Why do you want to come with me? Do you think I could have sons again for you to marry?

In her

Leviticus 22:13
A widowed or divorced daughter who has no children and who has returned to live in her father's house as a dependent may eat the food her father receives as a priest. Only a member of a priestly family may eat any of it.

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Luke 20:28
They asked him: Teacher, Moses wrote if a man's brother dies and he is childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up seed for his brother.