Genesis 38:16 meaning and explanation
Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “What will you give me for sleeping with you?” she inquired.
Genesis 38:16, Berean Standard Bible
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Judah is on his way to Timnah for sheep shearing, still a widower, when he sees a veiled woman by the road and assumes she is a prostitute. He does not know she is Tamar, his daughter-in-law, whom he had sent back to her father's house instead of giving her to his son Shelah.
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