Genesis 38:17

Modern English Version

And he said, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” And she said, “Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?”

Cross References

Genesis 38:16

He turned to her by the road and said, “Come now, let me have relations with you” (for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law). And she said, “What will you give me, so that you may have relations with me?”

Genesis 38:18

And he said, “What pledge should I give you?” And she said, “Your signet, your bracelets, and your staff that is in your hand.” So he gave them to her and had relations with her, and she conceived by him.

Genesis 38:20

Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite to receive his pledge from the woman’s hand, but he could not find her.

Proverbs 20:16

Take the garment of him who has put up security for a stranger, and hold it as a pledge for a foreigner.

Ezekiel 16:33

Men give gifts to all harlots. But you give your gifts to all your lovers, and hire them that they may come to you on every side for your harlotry.

Luke 16:8

“The master commended the dishonest steward, because he had acted prudently. For the sons of this age are wiser in their own generation than the sons of light.

Judges 15:1

After a while, during the wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife, taking a young goat. He said, “I’m going in to my wife in her bedroom,” but her father would not let him go in.