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.”

²² So he went back to Judah and said, “I could not find the woman, and the people who lived there said, ‘There has never been a prostitute here.’ ”