Genesis 38:23 - The Scriptures 1998

²³ And Yehuḏ

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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."

Genesis 38:23 Cross References

Genesis 38:22

And he returned to Yehuḏ

Genesis 38:24

And it came to be, about three months after, that Yehuḏ

2 Samuel 12:9

‘Why have you despised the Word of יהוה  to do evil in His eyes? You have killed Uriyah the Ḥ

Proverbs 6:33

He finds smiting and shame, And his reproach is not wiped away.

Romans 6:21

What fruit, therefore, were you having then, over which you are now ashamed? For the end thereof is death.

2 Corinthians 4:2

but have renounced the secret ways of shame, not walking in craftiness nor falsifying the Word of Elohim, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every human conscience, in the sight of Elohim.

Ephesians 5:12

For it is a shame even to speak of what is done by them in secret.

Revelation 16:15

“See, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who is staying awake and guarding his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.”