^38:16He turned aside to her along the road and said, “Come on! I want to have sex with you.”³¹ (He did not realize³² it was his daughter-in-law.) She asked, “What will you give me in exchange for having sex with you?”³³

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Footnotes

31 Heb “I will go to you.” The imperfect verbal form probably indicates his desire here. The expression “go to” is a euphemism for sexual intercourse.
32 Heb “for he did not know that.”
33 Heb “when you come to me.” This expression is a euphemism for sexual intercourse.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

He turned to her at the roadside and said, “Come, let me come in to you,” for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.”

“And what will you give me to sleep with you?” she asked.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

He went over to her and said, “Come, let me sleep with you,” for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law.

She said, “What will you give me for sleeping with me?”

NLTNew Living Translation

So he stopped and propositioned her. “Let me have sex with you,” he said, not realizing that she was his own daughter-in-law.

“How much will you pay to have sex with me?” Tamar asked.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And he turned aside to her at the roadside and said, “Please come, let me come in to you,” for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, “What will you give to me that you may come in to me?”

KJV 1900King James Version

And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?

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