Genesis 38:21
He asked the men who were there,“Where is the cult prostitute who was at Enaim by the road?” But they replied,“There has been no cult prostitute here.”
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- Gen 38:22-265 verses93%
22 So he returned to Judah and said,“I couldn’t find her. Moreover, the men of the place said,‘There has been no cult prostitute here.’”
23 Judah said,“Let her keep the things for herself. Otherwise we will appear to be dishonest. I did indeed send this young goat, but you couldn’t find her.”
24 After three months Judah was told,“Your daughter-in-law Tamar has turned to prostitution, and as a result she has become pregnant.” Judah said,“Bring her out and let her be burned!”
25 While they were bringing her out, she sent word to her father-in-law:“I am pregnant by the man to whom these belong.” Then she said,“Identify the one to whom the seal, cord, and staff belong.”
26 Judah recognized them and said,“She is more upright than I am, because I wouldn’t give her to Shelah my son.” He was not physically intimate with her again.
- Gen 38:13-208 verses85%
13 Tamar was told,“Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”
14 So she removed her widow’s clothes and covered herself with a veil. She wrapped herself and sat at the entrance to Enaim which is on the way to Timnah.(She did this because she saw that she had not been given to Shelah as a wife, even though he had now grown up.)
15 When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.
16 He turned aside to her along the road and said,“Come, please, I want to sleep with you.”(He did not realize it was his daughter-in-law.) She asked,“What will you give me so that you may sleep with me?”
17 He replied,“I’ll send you a young goat from the flock.” She asked,“Will you give me a pledge until you send it?”
18 He said,“What pledge should I give you?” She replied,“Your seal, your cord, and the staff that’s in your hand.” So he gave them to her, then slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
19 She left immediately, removed her veil, and put on her widow’s clothes.
20 Then Judah had his friend Hirah the Adullamite take a young goat to get back from the woman the items he had given in pledge, but Hirah could not find her.
- Gen 38:1-22 verses72%
1 Judah and Tamar At that time Judah left his brothers and stayed with an Adullamite man named Hirah.
2 There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. Judah acquired her as a wife and slept with her.
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27 for the man met her in the field and the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.
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43 Then I said about the one worn out by adultery,‘Now they will commit immoral acts with her.’
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31 But Simeon and Levi replied,“Should he treat our sister like a common prostitute?”
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15 When Joseph reached Shechem, a man found him wandering in the field, so the man asked him,“What are you looking for?”
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20 But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin,
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4 But the woman hid the two men and replied,“Yes, these men were clients of mine, but I didn’t know where they came from.
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14 accusing her of impropriety and defaming her reputation by saying,“I married this woman but when I approached her for marital relations I discovered she was not a virgin!”
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2 “Look up at the hilltops and consider this. Where have you not been ravished? You waited for those gods like a thief lying in wait in the wilderness. You defiled the land by your wicked prostitution to other gods.
- Judg 19:1-22 verses70%
1 Sodom and Gomorrah Revisited In those days Israel had no king. There was a Levite living temporarily in the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. He acquired a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
2 However, she got angry at him and went home to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months,
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20 He said to her,“Stand watch at the entrance to the tent. If anyone comes along and asks you,‘Is there a man here?’ say,‘No.’”
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10 Suddenly a woman came out to meet him! She was dressed like a prostitute and with secret intent.
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9 Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she defiled the land through her adulterous worship of gods made of wood and stone.
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17 Moreover, he has raised accusations of impropriety by saying,‘I discovered your daughter was not a virgin,’ but this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity!” The cloth must then be spread out before the city’s elders.
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8 He was passing by the street near her corner, making his way along the road to her house
- Ezek 16:31-322 verses69%
31 When you built your chamber at the head of every street and put up your pavilion in every public square, you were not like a prostitute, because you scoffed at payment.
32 “‘Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!
- Judg 19:17-182 verses69%
17 When he looked up and saw the traveler in the town square, the old man said,“Where are you heading? Where do you come from?”
18 The Levite said to him,“We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. That’s where I’m from. I had business in Bethlehem in Judah, but now I’m heading home. But no one has invited me into their home.
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57 Then they said,“We’ll call the girl and find out what she wants to do.”
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7 Yet even after she had done all that, I thought that she might come back to me. But she did not. Her sister, unfaithful Judah, saw what she did.
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38 He said,“You may go.” He permitted her to leave for two months. She went with her friends and mourned her virginity as she walked through the hills.
- Judg 19:22-232 verses68%
22 They were having a good time, when suddenly some men of the city, some good-for-nothings, surrounded the house and kept beating on the door. They said to the old man who owned the house,“Send out the man who came to visit you so we can take carnal knowledge of him.”
23 The man who owned the house went outside and said to them,“No, my brothers! Don’t do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Don’t do such a disgraceful thing!
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11 Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar,“Live as a widow in your father’s house until Shelah my son grows up.” For he thought,“I don’t want him to die like his brothers.” So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.
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35 “‘Therefore O prostitute, Listen to the LORD’s message:
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12 at one time outside, at another in the wide plazas, and by every corner she lies in wait.)