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


In Context

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.

19 She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

Genesis 38:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

38:17And he said, I will send [thee] a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give [me] a pledge, till thou send [it? ]

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

38:17"I'll send you a young goat from my flock," he said. "Will you give me something as a pledge until you send it?" she asked.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

38:17He said: I will send thee a kid out of the flock. And when she said again: I will suffer what thou wilt, if thou give a pledge, till thou send what thou promisest,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

38:17And he said, I will send thee a kid of the goats from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

38:17And he said, I will send thee a kid of the goats from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, until thou send it?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

38:17And he said, I will send thee a kid of the goats from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

38:17And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock: and she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou sendest it?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

38:17and he saith, 'I — I send a kid of the goats from the flock.' And she saith, 'Dost thou give a pledge till thou send it?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

38:17And he said, I will send you a kid from the flock. And she said, Will you give me a pledge, till you send it?