Verse 17
Genesis 38:17
Free Bible Version
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Hirah asked the men there, “Where's the cult prostitute that sits by the entrance road to Enaim?” “There's no cult prostitute here,” they answered.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר אָנֹכִ֛י אֲשַׁלַּ֥ח גְּדִֽי עִזִּ֖ים מִן הַ/צֹּ֑אן וַ/תֹּ֕אמֶר אִם תִּתֵּ֥ן עֵרָב֖וֹן עַ֥ד שָׁלְחֶֽ/ךָ
English Translation
And he said, "I will send a kid of the goats from the flock," and she said, "If you will give a pledge until you send."
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Chapter 38 Context
1
Around this time, Judah left his brothers and set up his tents at Adullam, near to a local man named...
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There Judah happened to see the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua and married her. He slept wit...
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Much later, Judah arranged for Er, his firstborn son, to marry a woman named Tamar.
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But Er did what was evil in the Lord's sight, so the Lord put him to death.
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Judah told Onan, “Go and sleep with your brother's wife to fulfill the requirements of a brother-in-...
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Onan realized that any children he had wouldn't be his own, so whenever he slept with his brother's...
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But what he did was evil in the Lord's sight, so he also put Onan to death.
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Then Judah told his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Go to your father's house and live there as a widow unti...
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A long time later Judah's wife, the daughter of Shua, died. After Judah had finished the time of mou...
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Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going to Timnah to shear his sheep.”
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So she took off her widow's clothes and covered herself with a veil, disguising herself. She sat dow...
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He went over to her at the side of the road and said, “I want to sleep with you.” He didn't know she...
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“I'll send you a young goat from my flock,” he replied. “What guarantee will you give me to make sur...
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“What guarantee do I have to give you?” he asked. “Your signet seal and its cord, and your walking s...
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She left, went home, took off her veil, and put on her widow's clothes.
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Judah sent his friend Hirah from Adullam with a young goat to get back his belongings he'd left as a...
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Hirah asked the men there, “Where's the cult prostitute that sits by the entrance road to Enaim?” “T...
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Hirah went back to Judah and told him, “I couldn't find her, and the men there said, ‘There's no cul...
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“Let her keep what I gave her,” Judah replied. “We'll look ridiculous to people if we go on searchin...
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Then about three months later Judah was told, “Tamar your daughter-in-law has had sex like a prostit...
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21
As she was brought out, she sent a message to her father-in-law, saying, “I'm pregnant by the man wh...
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Judah recognized them right away and said, “She has honored the law more than I have, because I didn...
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When the time came for Tamar to give birth, she was found to be carrying twins.
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One baby put out his hand, and the midwife tied a scarlet thread around his wrist and said, “This on...
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But then he pulled back his hand and his brother was born, she said, “How did you burst out?” So he...
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Then his brother with the scarlet thread on his wrist was born. He was named Zerah.
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