17He said, "I will send you a kid of the goats from the flock." She said, "Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?"
18He said, "What pledge will I give you?" She said, "Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand." He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.
19She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
20Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman`s hand, but he didn`t find her.
21Then he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?" They said, "There has been no prostitute here."
22He returned to Judah, and said, "I haven`t found her; and also the men of the place said, `There has been no prostitute here.`"
23Judah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be put to shame. Behold, I sent this kid, and you haven`t found her."
