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.
21. He asked the locals of that place, "Where’s the consecrated worker who was at Enaim on the road?"But they said, "There’s no consecrated worker here."
22. So he went back to Judah and said, "I couldn’t find her. The locals even said, ‘There’s no holy woman here.’"
23. Judah said, "Let her keep everything so we aren’t laughed at. I did send this kid goat, but you couldn’t find her."
24. About three months later, Judah was told, "Your daughter-in-law Tamar has become a prostitute and is now pregnant because of it."And Judah said, "Bring her out so that she may be burned."