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 38:17 - 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He answered, I will send you a kid from the flock. And she said, Will you give me a pledge (deposit) until you send it? American Standard Version (1901) And he said, I will send thee a kid of the goats from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it? Common English Bible He said, “I will give you a kid goat from my flock.” She said, “Only if you give me some deposit, as security to guarantee that you will send it.” Catholic Public Domain Version He said, "I will send you a young goat from the flock." And again, she said, "I will allow what you want, if you give me a pledge, until you may send what you promise." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He said: I will send thee a kid out of the flock. And when she said again: I will suffer what thou wilt, if thou give a pledge, till thou send what thou promisest. |
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?”
“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.
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.
Take a man’s garment, who puts up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge, as security for a foreign woman.
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.
“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.
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.