“And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah’s wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.”
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. The passage of time — a long time, Judah's grief, his recovery — creates the context for Tamar's plan. Shelah is grown (verse 14); Judah has not given him to Tamar. The application: the passage of time that reveals the deferred promise will not be kept is the passage of time that creates the moral crisis Tamar must navigate.
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