Genesis 38:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he put questions to the men of the place, saying, Where is the loose woman who was in Enaim by the wayside? And they said, There was no such woman there.

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  • Gen 38:22-26
    5 verses
    93%

    22So he went back to Judah, and said, I have not seen her, and the men of the place say that there is no such woman there.

    23And Judah said, Let her keep the things, so that we may not be shamed; I sent the young goat, but you did not see the woman.

    24Now about three months after this, word came to Judah that Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had been acting like a loose woman and was with child. And Judah said, Take her out and let her be burned.

    25And while she was being taken out, she sent word to her father-in-law, saying, The man whose property these things are, is the father of my child: say then, whose are this ring and this cord and this stick?

    26Then Judah said openly that they were his, and said, She is more upright than I am, for I did not give her to Shelah my son. And he had no more connection with her.

  • Gen 38:13-20
    8 verses
    85%

    13And when Tamar had news that her father-in-law was going up to Timnah to the wool-cutting,

    14She took off her widow's clothing, and covering herself with her veil, she took her seat near Enaim on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was now a man, but she had not been made his wife.

    15When Judah saw her he took her to be a loose woman of the town, because her face was covered.

    16And turning to her by the roadside, he said to her, Let me come in to you; for he had no idea that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What will you give me as my price?

    17And he said, I will give you a young goat from the flock. And she said, What will you give me as a sign till you send it?

    18And he said, What would you have? And she said, Your ring and its cord and the stick in your hand. So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she became with child by him.

    19Then she got up and went away and took off her veil and put on her widow's clothing.

    20Then Judah sent his friend Hirah with the young goat, to get back the things which he had given as a sign to the woman: but she was not there.

  • Gen 38:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1Now at that time, Judah went away from his brothers and became the friend of a man of Adullam named Hirah.

    2And there he saw the daughter of a certain man of Canaan named Shua, and took her as his wife.

  • 27For he came across her in the open country, and there was no one to come to the help of the virgin in answer to her cry.

  • 43Then I said ... now she will go on with her loose ways.

  • 31But they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister as a loose woman?

  • 15And a man saw him wandering in the country, and said to him, What are you looking for?

  • 20But if what he has said is true, and she is seen to be not a virgin,

  • 4And the woman took the two men and put them in a secret place; then she said, Yes, the men came to me, but I had no idea where they came from;

  • 14And says evil things about her and gives her a bad name, saying, I took this woman, and when I had connection with her it was clear to me that she was not a virgin:

  • 2Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.

  • Judg 19:1-2
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    1Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living in the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he got for himself a servant-wife from Beth-lehem-judah.

    2And his servant-wife was angry with him, and went away from him to her father's house at Beth-lehem-judah, and was there for four months.

  • 20And he said to her, Take your place at the door of the tent, and if anyone comes and says to you, Is there any man here, say, No.

  • 10And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;

  • 9So that through all her loose behaviour the land became unclean, and she was untrue, giving herself to stones and trees.

  • 17And now he has put shame on her, saying that she is not a virgin; but here is the sign that she is a virgin. Then they are to put her clothing before the responsible men of the town.

  • 8Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,

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    31For you have made your arched room at the top of every street, and your high place in every open place; though you were not like a loose woman in getting together your payment.

    32The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!

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    17And when he saw the traveller in the street of the town, the old man said, Where are you going? and where do you come from?

    18And he said to him, We are on our way from Beth-lehem-judah to the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim: I came from there and went to Beth-lehem-judah: now I am on my way back to my house, but no man will take me into his house.

  • 57And they said, We will send for the girl, and let her make the decision.

  • 7And I said, After she has done all these things she will come back to me; but she did not. And her false sister Judah saw it.

  • 38And he said, Go then. So he sent her away for two months; and she went with her friends to the mountains, weeping for her sad fate.

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    22While they were taking their pleasure at the meal, the good-for-nothing men of the town came round the house, giving blows on the door; and they said to the old man, the master of the house, Send out that man who came to your house, so that we may take our pleasure with him.

    23So the man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said, No, my brothers, do not this evil thing; this man has come into my house, and you are not to do him this wrong.

  • 11Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Go back to your father's house and keep yourself as a widow till my son Shelah becomes a man: for he had in his mind the thought that death might come to him as it had come to his brothers. So Tamar went back to her father's house.

  • 35For this cause, O loose woman, give ear to the voice of the Lord:

  • 12Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.