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.
21. 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.”