¹⁸ Then he said, “What pledge shall I give you?”

So she said, ^(A)“Your signet and cord, and your staff that is in your hand.” Then he gave them to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him.

²⁵ When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “By the man to whom these belong, I am with child.” And she said, ^(A)“Please determine whose these are—the signet and cord, and staff.”

²⁶ So Judah ^(B)acknowledged them and said, ^(C)“She has been more righteous than I, because ^(D)I did not give her to Shelah my son.” And he ^(E)never knew her again.

²² “But the father said to his servants, ^[a]‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.

The Idolatry of Israel

Message to Coniah

²⁴ “As I live,” says the Lord, ^(A)“though ^[a]Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, ^(B)were the ^[b]signet on My right hand, yet I would pluck you off;