Genesis 38:21

World English Bible (2000)

Then he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?" They said, "There has been no prostitute here."

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  • Gen 38:22-26
    5 verses
    93%

    22 He returned to Judah, and said, "I haven't found her; and also the men of the place said, 'There has been no prostitute here.'"

    23 Judah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven't found her."

    24 It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." Judah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."

    25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, "By the man, whose these are, I am with child." She also said, "Please discern whose are these--the signet, and the cords, and the staff."

    26 Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous than I, because I didn't give her to Shelah, my son." He knew her again no more.

  • Gen 38:13-20
    8 verses
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    13 It was told Tamar, saying, "Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."

    14 She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife.

    15 When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

    16 He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you," for he didn't know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"

    17 He said, "I will send you a young goat from the flock." She said, "Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?"

    18 He said, "What pledge will I give you?" She said, "Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand." He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.

    19 She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

    20 Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, but he didn't find her.

  • Gen 38:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1 It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

    2 Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her, and went in to her.

  • 27 for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was none to save her.

  • 43 Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, Now will they play the prostitute with her, and she [with them].

  • 31 They said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?"

  • 15 A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, "What are you looking for?"

  • 20 But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady;

  • 4 The woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said, "Yes, the men came to me, but I didn't know where they came from.

  • 14 and accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name on her, and says, "I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn't find in her the tokens of virginity;"

  • 2 "Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat for them by the ways, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.

  • Judg 19:1-2
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    70%

    1 It happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.

    2 His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father's house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there the space of four months.

  • 20 He said to her, "Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man comes and inquires of you, and says, 'Is there any man here?' that you shall say, 'No.'"

  • 10 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.

  • 9 It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

  • 17 and behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, 'I didn't find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;' and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity." They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

  • 8 passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,

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    31 in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.

    32 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!

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    17 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, "Where are you going? Where did you come from?"

    18 He said to him, "We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim. I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem Judah. I am going to the house of Yahweh; and there is no man who takes me into his house.

  • 57 They said, "We will call the young lady, and ask her."

  • 7 I said after she had done all these things, 'She will return to me;' but she didn't return; and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

  • 38 He said, "Go." He sent her away for two months: and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.

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    22 As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may have sex with him!"

    23 The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, "No, my brothers, please don't act so wickedly; since this man is come into my house, don't do this folly.

  • 11 Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;" for he said, "Lest he also die, like his brothers." Tamar went and lived in her father's house.

  • 35 Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh:

  • 12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.