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Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various colors that was on her; and she laid her hand on her head and went her way, crying aloud as she went.
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Verse 19. Head, as if to hide her face. Ezekiel 27:30, Jeremiah 2:37. So Mezentius:
“Canitiem immundo deformat pulvere et ambas
Ad Cœlum tendit palmas.” Virgil, Æneid x. See Iliad ii. Calmet.
—Crying, that no one might think she had consented. Menochius.—She probably went directly to her brother’s house, and related the affair to him; or he met her in this condition. Salien.
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