22 And after these things, while Tamar was a widow, she heard after two years that I was going up, to shear my sheep, and adorned herself in bridal array, and sat in the city Enaim by the gate. (T12) 23 For it was a law of the Amorites, that she who was about to marry should sit in fornication seven days by the gate. (T12) 24 Therefore being drunk with wine, I did not recognize her; and her beauty deceived me, through the fashion of her adorning. (T12)
Testament of Judah 2:22–24
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