¹⁹ Then she got up and went away and took off her veil and put on her widow's clothing.

¹⁴ She took off her widow's clothing, and covering herself with her veil, she took her seat near Enaim on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was now a man, but she had not been made his wife.

² And Joab sent to Tekoa and got from there a wise woman, and said to her, Now make yourself seem like one given up to grief, and put on the clothing of sorrow, not using any sweet oil for your body, but looking like one who for a long time has been weeping for the dead:

⁵ And the king said to her, What is your trouble? And her answer was, Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.