Genesis 38:17

English Standard Version 2016

He answered, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” And she said, “If you give me a pledge, until you send it—”

Cross References

Ezekiel 16:33

Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings.

Genesis 38:20

When Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite to take back the pledge from the woman’s hand, he did not find her.

Luke 16:8

The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.

Proverbs 20:16

Take a man’s garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for foreigners.

Genesis 38:16

He turned to her at the roadside and said, “Come, let me come in to you,” for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”

Genesis 38:18

He said, “What pledge shall I give you?” She replied, “Your signet and your cord and your staff that is in your hand.” So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him.

Judges 15:1

After some days, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife with a young goat. And he said, “I will go in to my wife in the chamber.” But her father would not allow him to go in.