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

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

³³ All prostitutes receive gifts,^(A) but you give gifts^(B) to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors.^(C)

²⁰ Meanwhile Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite^(A) in order to get his pledge^(B) back from the woman, but he did not find her.

⁸ “The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world^(A) are more shrewd^(B) in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light.^(C)

²⁴ About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar is guilty of prostitution, and as a result she is now pregnant.”

Judah said, “Bring her out and have her burned to death!”^(A)

²⁵ As she was being brought out, she sent a message to her father-in-law. “I am pregnant by the man who owns these,” she said. And she added, “See if you recognize whose seal and cord and staff these are.”^(B)