Genesis 38:16

So he turned aside to her by the roadside, and said, ‘Permit me, I pray you, to lie with you.’ For he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, ‘What will you give me to lie with me?’

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In The King James Version

And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?

In Context

15When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a prostitute; because she had veiled her face.

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

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Cross References

1 Timothy 6:10Love of money is a source of all kinds of evil; and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith, and have been pierced to the heart by many a regret.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 38:13-24

12 And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. 13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep. 14 And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife. 15 When… Read the whole commentary →

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