Genesis 38:16

World English Bible

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?”

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Genesis 38:16 in other translations

And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Come, 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?

Genesis 38:16 · American Standard Version

Genesis 38:16 in context

  1. 14She took off the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.
  2. 15When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.
  3. 16He 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?”
  4. 17He said, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.”
    She said, “Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?”
  5. 18He 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.