17. He 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,
18. Juda said: What wilt thou have for a pledge? She answered: Thy ring and bracelet, and the staff which thou holdest in thy hand. The woman therefore at one copulation conceived.
19. And she arose and went her way: and putting off the apparel which she had taken, put on the garments of her widowhood.
20. And Juda sent a kid by his shepherd, the Odollamite, that he might receive the pledge again, which he had given to the woman: but he, not finding her,
21. asked the men of that place: Where is the woman that sat in the cross way? And when they all made answer: There was no harlot in this place,
22. He returned to Juda, and said to him: I have not found her; moreover the men of that place said to me, that there never sat a harlot there.