Genesis 38:17

Tree of Life Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 38:16

So he turned aside to her along the way and said, “Please let me sleep with you” (for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law). “What,” she asked, “will you give me to sleep with me?”

Genesis 38:18

“What kind of pledge shall I give you?” he asked. “Your seal, and your cord, and your staff in your hand,” she said. So he gave them to her and he slept with her, and she got pregnant by him.

Genesis 38:20

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

Proverbs 20:16

Take a man’s garment, who puts up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge, as security for a foreign woman.

Ezekiel 16:33

To all prostitutes gifts are given—but you gave your gifts to all your lovers! You bribed them to come to you from every side in your harlotry.

Luke 16:8

“Now the master praised the crooked manager because he had acted shrewdly, for the sons of this age are smarter when dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.

Judges 15:1

But after a while, during the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. “I am going to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.