Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;" for he said, "Lest he also die, like his brothers." Tamar went and lived in her father's house.

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

God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.

Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"

for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it."

He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was around every city, he laid up in the same.

The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.