17 "I'll send you a young goat from my flock," he said. "Will you give me something as a pledge until you send it?" she asked.
17 He answered, "I will send you a young goat from the flock." And she said, "If you give me a pledge, until you send it--"
17 "I'll send you," he said, "a kid goat from the flock." She said, "Not unless you give me a pledge until you send it."
17 And he said, "I will send a young goat from the flock." So she said, "Will you give me a pledge till you send it?"
17 "I'll send you a young goat from my flock," Judah promised. "But what will you give me to guarantee that you will send the goat?" she asked.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Genesis 38:17
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The profligate conduct of Judah and his family.
This chapter gives an account of Judah and his family, and such an account it is, that it seems a wonder that of all Jacob's sons, our Lord should spring out of Judah, John 8:41. What awful examples the Lord proclaims in his punishments, of his utter displeasure at sin! Let us seek grace from God to avoid every appearance of sin. And let that state of humbleness to which Jesus submitted, when he came to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself, in appointing such characters as those here recorded, to be his ancestors, endear the Redeemer to our hearts.