16He turned to her by the way, and said, |Please come, let me come in to you,| for he didn't know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, |What will you give me, that you may come in to me?|


In Context

13 It was told Tamar, saying, |Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.|

14 She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife.

15 When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

16 He turned to her by the way, and said, |Please come, let me come in to you,| for he didn't know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, |What will you give me, that you may come in to me?|

17 He said, |I will send you a young goat from the flock.| She said, |Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?|

18 He 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.

Genesis 38:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

38:16And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she [was] his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

38:16Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, "Come now, let me sleep with you." "And what will you give me to sleep with you?" she asked.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

38:16And going to her, he said: Suffer me to lie with thee: for he knew her not to be his daughter in law. And she answered: What wilt thou give me to en joy my company?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

38:16And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Come, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee: for he knew not that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

38:16And he turned aside to her by the way, and said, Come, I pray thee, let me go in to thee; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in to me?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

38:16And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee: for he knew not that she was his daughter in law. And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

38:16And he turned to her by the way, and said, Come, I pray thee, let me have access to thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter-in-law:) and she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayst have access to me?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

38:16and he turneth aside unto her by the way, and saith, 'Come, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee,' (for he hath not known that she is his daughter-in-law); and she saith, 'What dost thou give to me, that thou mayest come in unto me?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

38:16And he turned to her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray you, let me come in to you; (for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.) And she said, What will you give me, that you may come in to me?