Genesis 38:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²³ And Judah replied, “Let her keep the things as her own, lest we be laughed at; you see, I sent this kid, and you could not find her.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ And Judah said, Let her keep [the pledge articles] for herself, lest we be made ashamed. I sent this kid, but you have not found her.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be put to shame: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.

Common English Bible

²³ Judah said, “Let her keep everything so we aren’t laughed at. I did send this kid goat, but you couldn’t find her.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ Judah said: "Let her hold herself to blame. Certainly, she is not able to accuse us of a lie. I sent the young goat that I had promised, and you did not find her."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ Juda said: Let her take it to herself; surely she cannot charge us with a lie. I sent the kid which I promised: and thou didst not find her.

Genesis 38:23 Cross References

Genesis 38:22

So he returned to Judah, and said, “I have not found her; and also the men of the place said, ‘No harlot has been here.’ ”

Genesis 38:24

About three months later Judah was told, “Tamar your daughter-in-law has played the harlot; and moreover she is with child by harlotry.” And Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”

2 Samuel 12:9

Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.

Proverbs 6:33

Wounds and dishonor will he get, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.

Romans 6:21

But then what return did you get from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end of those things is death.

2 Corinthians 4:2

We have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways; we refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

Ephesians 5:12

For it is a shame even to speak of the things that they do in secret;

Revelation 16:15

(“Lo, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is he who is awake, keeping his garments that he may not go naked and be seen exposed!”)