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17 So he called out to a young man who was serving him, and told him: “Send this woman away from me and lock the door after her.”

18 Now she was clothed in a long sleeved, multi-colored ornamental tunic, commonly worn by the king’s virgin daughters. When Amnon’s[a] servant threw her out and locked the door after her, 19 Tamar rubbed her head with ashes, tore her tunic that she was wearing, put her hand to her head, and ran off, crying aloud as she went away.

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  1. 2 Samuel 13:18 Lit. his