Genesis 38:18-23

¹⁸“What pledge should I give you?” he asked. She answered, “Your seal and your cord, and the staff in your hand.” So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.

¹⁹Then Tamar got up and departed. And she removed her veil and put on her widow’s garments again.

²⁰Now when Judah sent his friend Hirah the Adullamite with the young goat to collect the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her.

²¹He asked the men of that place, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “No shrine prostitute has been here,” they answered.

²²So Hirah returned to Judah and said, “I could not find her, and furthermore, the men of that place said, ‘No shrine prostitute has been here.’”

²³“Let her keep the items,” Judah replied. “Otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you could not find her.”

— Genesis 38:18-23

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Cross References for Genesis 38:18-23

• Genesis 38:25-26
• Genesis 38:14
• 2 Samuel 14:2
• Ephesians 5:12
• Leviticus 19:17
• 2 Corinthians 4:2
• Hosea 4:11
• Genesis 20:9
• 2 Samuel 14:5
• Revelation 16:15

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