¹⁶ Not realizing^(A) that she was his daughter-in-law,^(B) he went over to her by the roadside and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.”^(C)

“And what will you give me to sleep with you?”^(D) she asked.

¹⁷ “I’ll send you a young goat^(E) from my flock,” he said.

“Will you give me something as a pledge^(F) until you send it?” she asked.

¹⁸ He said, “What pledge should I give you?”

“Your seal^(G) and its cord, and the staff^(H) in your hand,” she answered. So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.^(I)