Genesis 38:17

New King James Version

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

Cross References

Ezekiel 16:33

Men make payment to all harlots, but you made your payments to all your lovers, and hired them to come to you from all around for your harlotry.

Genesis 38:20

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

Luke 16:8

So the master commended the unjust steward because he had dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light.

Proverbs 20:16

Take the garment of one who is surety for a stranger, And hold it as a pledge when it is for a seductress.

Genesis 38:16

Then he turned to her by the way, and said, “Please let me come in to you”; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. So she said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”

Genesis 38:18

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

Judges 15:1

After a while, in the time of wheat harvest, it happened that Samson visited his wife with a young goat. And he said, “Let me go in to my wife, into her room.” But her father would not permit him to go in.