Genesis 38:12-15 - After a long time Judah's wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had recovered from his grief, he went up to Timnah, to the men who were shearing his sheep, and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went with him.
When Tamar was told, "Your father-in-law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep," she took off her widow's clothes, covered herself with a veil to disguise herself, and then sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had now grown up, she had not been given to him as his wife.
When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.
I wonder how Tamar got to Enaim before Judah and Hirah, since it looks like they started out before she did. Did she have a faster camel, donkey, or horse?
Did Tamar travel alone? (That could account for more speed too.) I would have thought that would be a very dangerous thing to do for a young woman.
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