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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 Hirah 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[a] who was at Enaim on the road?”

But they said, “There’s no consecrated worker here.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 38:21 Traditionally cultic prostitute

19 After she left, she took off her veil and put on her widow’s clothes(A) again.

20 Meanwhile Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite(B) in order to get his pledge(C) back from the woman, but he did not find her. 21 He asked the men who lived there, “Where is the shrine prostitute(D) who was beside the road at Enaim?”

“There hasn’t been any shrine prostitute here,” they said.

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