Genesis 38:19-21

Expanded Bible

¹⁹ When ·Tamar went home [^Lshe got up and went], she took off the veil that covered her face and put on the clothes that showed she was a widow.

²⁰ Judah sent his friend ·Hirah [^Lthe Adullamite; 38:1] with the young goat to find the woman and get back his ·seal [signet] and the ·walking stick [staff] he had given her, but Hirah could not find her. ²¹ He asked some of the people at the town of Enaim, “Where is the prostitute [^Cperhaps indicating a temple prostitute connected to a fertility religion] who was here by the road?”

They answered, “There has never been a prostitute here.”