Genesis 38:21

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where [is] the harlot, that [was] openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this [place].

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  • Gen 38:22-26
    5 verses
    93%

    22And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, [that] there was no harlot in this [place].

    23And Judah said, Let her take [it] to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.

    24¶ And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she [is] with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.

    25When she [was] brought forth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man, whose these [are, am] I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose [are] these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff.

    26And Judah acknowledged [them], and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.

  • Gen 38:13-20
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    13And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.

    14And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, 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.

    15When Judah saw her, he thought her [to be] an harlot; because she had covered her face.

    16And 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?

    17And he said, I will send [thee] a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give [me] a pledge, till thou send [it]?

    18And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that [is] in thine hand. And he gave [it] her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.

    19And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

    20And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive [his] pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not.

  • Gen 38:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1¶ And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name [was] Hirah.

    2And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name [was] Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.

  • 27For he found her in the field, [and] the betrothed damsel cried, and [there was] none to save her.

  • 43Then said I unto [her that was] old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she [with them]?

  • 31And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?

  • 15And a certain man found him, and, behold, [he was] wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

  • 20But if this thing be true, [and the tokens of] virginity be not found for the damsel:

  • 4And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they [were]:

  • 14And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:

  • 2Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

  • Judg 19:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1¶ And it came to pass in those days, when [there was] no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah.

    2And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Bethlehemjudah, and was there four whole months.

  • 20Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.

  • 10And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

  • 9And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

  • 17And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech [against her], saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these [are the tokens of] my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

  • 8Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

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    31In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;

    32[But as] a wife that committeth adultery, [which] taketh strangers instead of her husband!

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    17And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?

    18And he said unto him, We [are] passing from Bethlehemjudah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence [am] I: and I went to Bethlehemjudah, but I [am now] going to the house of the LORD; and there [is] no man that receiveth me to house.

  • 57And they said, We will call the damsel, and enquire at her mouth.

  • 7And I said after she had done all these [things], Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw [it].

  • 38And he said, Go. And he sent her away [for] two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.

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    22¶ [Now] as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, [and] beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.

    23And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, [nay], I pray you, do not [so] wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.

  • 11Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren [did]. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.

  • 35¶ Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:

  • 12Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)