18 Judah said, 'What do you want to be given for a pledge?' She responded, 'Your ring and bracelet, and the staff that you hold in your hand.' Thereupon, the woman, from one sexual encounter, conceived.
19 And she arose and went away. And storing away the garments that she had taken up, she was clothed in the garments of her widowhood.
20 Then Judah sent a young goat by his shepherd, the Adullamite, so that he might receive the pledge that he had given to the woman. But, when he had not found her,
21 he questioned the men of that place: 'Where is the woman who sat at the crossroad?' And they all responded, 'There has been no harlot in this place.'
22 He returned to Judah, and he said to him: 'I did not find her. Moreover, the men of that place told me that a prostitute had never sat there.'
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