He returned to Judah, and said, “I haven’t found her; and also the men of the place said, ‘There has been no prostitute here.’ ”
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He returned to Judah, and said, “I haven’t found her; and also the men of the place said, ‘There has been no prostitute here.’ ”
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And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place.
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And he returned to Judah, and said: 'I have not found her; and also the men of the place said: There hath been no harlot here.'
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 38:22 And he returned to Judah, and said,…
Gen 38:22 And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, [that] there was no harlot in this [place].
Ver. 22. There was no harlot in this place.] Few places can say so. Every house in Egypt had a dead corpse in it; and too many houses here have such, as, "living in pleasure, are dead while they live." {1Ti 5:6} {a} Of this sort was that Arlet, a skinner’s daughter in Normandy, whose nimbleness in her dance made Duke Robert enamoured, &c. On her he begat our William the Conqueror. {b} In spite to whom, and disgrace to his mother, the English called all whores, harlets. But who can read without detestation, that in Rome a Jewess may not be admitted into the stews, unless she will be first baptized? as Espencaeus, an honest Papist, complains. {c}
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{a} Sane, hercle, homo voluptati obsequens fuit dum vixit. - Terent.
{b} Heyl., Geog., p. 96.
{c} Espencae., De Continentia, lib. iii. cap. 4.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Judah said, let her take it to her,....…
And Judah said, let her take it to her,.... The pledge, and make no further inquiry after her:
lest we be shamed; Judah for committing fornication, which even among Heathens, at least at that time of day, was reckoned a shameful action; and be laughed at also, for committing such a pledge to an whore, who had tricked him out of it; and his friend Hirah for conniving at the sin, and being employed on such an errand:
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behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her: who could be a witness for him, if there should be any occasion, that he was faithful to his promise.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot…
And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot (or kedeshah) in this place.
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