Genesis 38:17

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He replied, 'I will send you a young goat from my flock.' She said, 'Will you give me something as a pledge until you send it?'

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  • Gen 38:20 : 20 Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite to retrieve the pledge from the woman, but he could not find her.
  • Ezek 16:33 : 33 All prostitutes receive gifts, but you give gifts to all your lovers. You bribe them to come to you from all around for your acts of prostitution.
  • Luke 16:8 : 8 The master praised the dishonest manager for acting shrewdly, because the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light.
  • Gen 38:24-25 : 24 About three months later, Judah was told, 'Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant as a result.' Judah said, 'Bring her out and let her be burned!' 25 As she was being brought out, she sent a message to her father-in-law, saying, 'I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.' And she added, 'Please examine them. Whose seal, cord, and staff are these?'
  • Prov 20:16 : 16 Take a garment as security from one who guarantees a stranger's debt; hold it in pledge if it is for a foreign woman.

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  • Gen 38:18-23
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    88%

    18He asked, 'What pledge should I give you?' She answered, 'Your seal and its cord, and the staff in your hand.' So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she conceived by him.

    19Then she got up and left, took off her veil, and put back on her widow's garments.

    20Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite to retrieve the pledge from the woman, but he could not find her.

    21He asked the men of the place, 'Where is the prostitute who was by the road at Enaim?' They replied, 'There has been no prostitute here.'

    22So he returned to Judah and said, 'I couldn’t find her. Furthermore, the men of the place said, "There has been no prostitute here."'

    23Judah said, 'Let her keep what she has, or we will become a laughingstock. After all, I sent her this young goat, but you didn’t find her.'

  • Gen 38:15-16
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    15When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, because she had covered her face.

    16He turned aside to her by the roadside and said, 'Come now, let me sleep with you.' He did not know she was his daughter-in-law. She asked, 'What will you give me to sleep with you?'

  • Gen 30:31
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    31Laban asked, 'What shall I give you?' Jacob replied, 'You shall give me nothing. If you do this one thing for me, I will continue to tend and watch over your flock.'

  • Gen 38:25-26
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    25As she was being brought out, she sent a message to her father-in-law, saying, 'I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.' And she added, 'Please examine them. Whose seal, cord, and staff are these?'

    26Judah recognized them and said, 'She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.' And he did not have relations with her again.

  • Gen 34:11-12
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    11Shechem said to Dinah's father and brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you ask of me, I will give.

    12Set the bride price and gift as high as you like, and I will pay whatever you ask me; just give me the young woman as a wife."

  • Gen 27:9
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    9Go to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can prepare a tasty meal for your father, just the way he loves it.

  • Gen 24:37-38
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    37My master made me swear an oath, saying, 'You must not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I live.

    38Instead, you must go to my father's household and to my family to take a wife for my son.'

  • Gen 24:23
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    23Then he asked, "Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?"

  • Gen 15:9
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    9The LORD said to him, "Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."

  • Gen 24:8
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    8If the woman is unwilling to come back with you, then you will be released from this oath of mine. But do not take my son back there."

  • Judg 11:38
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    38He said, 'Go,' and he sent her away for two months. She and her friends went to the hills and wept because she would never marry.

  • Gen 24:40-41
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    40He answered me, 'The Lord, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you and make your journey successful, so that you can take a wife for my son from my family and my father's household.

    41'You will be released from my oath if you go to my family and they refuse to give her to you. Then you will be free from my oath.'

  • Ruth 3:14-17
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    14So she lay at his feet until morning but got up before anyone could recognize another. For he said, 'Let it not be known that a woman came to the threshing floor.'

    15And he said, 'Bring me the cloak that you are wearing and hold it out.' So she held it out, and he measured out six measures of barley and placed it on her. Then he went into the town.

    16When Ruth came to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked, 'How did it go, my daughter?' Then she told her everything the man had done for her.

    17She added, 'He gave me these six measures of barley, saying, “Do not go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.”'

  • Gen 31:9
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    9So God has taken away your father’s livestock and given it to me.

  • Ruth 3:4-5
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    4When he lies down, take note of the place where he is lying. Then go, uncover his feet, and lie down. He will tell you what to do.

    5And she said to her, 'I will do everything you say.'

  • Judg 19:3
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    3Then her husband arose and went after her to speak kindly to her and bring her back. He took with him his servant and a pair of donkeys. When he arrived at her father’s house, the woman’s father saw him and was glad to welcome him.

  • Gen 24:43
    68%

    43see, I am standing beside this spring. If a young woman comes out to draw water and I say to her, "Please give me a little water from your jar to drink,"

  • Judg 6:18
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    18Please do not leave here until I return to you and bring my offering and set it before you.' And the Lord said, 'I will stay until you return.'

  • Hos 3:3
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    3And I said to her, "You must stay with me for many days. You shall not engage in prostitution or belong to another man, and I will also remain loyal to you."

  • Gen 21:27
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    27So Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.

  • Gen 30:28
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    28He continued, 'Name your wages, and I will pay them.'

  • Deut 22:17
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    17And now he has made false accusations against her, saying, 'I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.' But here is the evidence of my daughter's virginity.' Then they shall spread out the cloth before the elders of the city.

  • Gen 24:18
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    18"Drink, my lord," she said, and quickly lowered the jar to her hands and gave him a drink.

  • Gen 24:25
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    25She also said, "We have plenty of straw and fodder, as well as a place for you to spend the night."

  • Gen 44:32
    68%

    32For your servant took responsibility for the boy before my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.'

  • Gen 24:4
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    4Instead, go to my country and my kindred to choose a wife for my son Isaac.

  • Gen 30:15
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    15But Leah said to her, 'Isn’t it enough that you took my husband? Will you take my son’s mandrakes too?' Rachel said, 'Very well, he can sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.'

  • Gen 24:47
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  • Josh 2:17
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    17The men said to her, "We will be free from this oath you made us swear

  • Gen 38:13
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    13When Tamar was told, 'Your father-in-law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,'

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    38I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten rams from your flocks.