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Genesis 38:16

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16Not realizingx that she was his daughter-in-law,y he went over to her by the roadside and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.”z

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

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Cross references

  1. xGe 42:23
  2. yLev 18:15; 20:12; Ru 1:6
  3. zGe 39:7, 12; 2 Sa 13:11
  4. aSee Ge 30:15

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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?”

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?