¹⁸ He said, “What pledge shall I give you?” She replied, ^(A)“Your signet and your cord and your staff that is in your hand.” So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him.

²⁵ As she was being brought out, she sent word to her father-in-law, “By the man to whom these belong, I am pregnant.” And she said, “Please identify whose these are, ^(A)the signet and the cord and the staff.” ²⁶ Then Judah identified them and said, ^(B)“She is more righteous than I, since ^(C)I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not know her again.

²² But the father said to his servants,^[a] ‘Bring quickly ^(A)the best robe, and put it on him, and put ^(B)a ring on his hand, and ^(C)shoes on his feet.

^24 (A)“As I live, declares the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were ^(B)the signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off