15. Judah saw her and thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.
16. He turned to her beside the road and said, "Let me sleep with you," because he didn’t know she was his daughter-in-law.She said, "What will you give me for sleeping with you?"
17. He said, "I will give you a kid goat from my flock."She said, "Only if you give me some deposit, as security to guarantee that you will send it."
18. He said, "What kind of deposit should I give you?"And she said, "Your seal, its cord, and the staff in your hand." He gave these to her, slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
19. Then she got up, left, and took off her veil, dressing once again in the clothing she wore as a widow.
20. Judah sent the kid goat with his neighbor the Adullamite so he could take back the deposits from the woman, but he couldn’t find her.