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Genesis 38:23

WEB

23Judah said, “Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven’t found her.”

KJV

23And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.

BSB

23“Let her keep the items,” Judah replied. “Otherwise we will become a laughingstock.[+] After all, I did send her this young goat, but you could not find her.”

FBV

23“Let her keep what I gave her,” Judah replied. “We'll look ridiculous to people if we go on searching. In any case I did try to send her the young goat as promised but you couldn't find her.”

Related Resources

Book of Genesis Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (Part 2) - BibleProject

Extra References

Romans 6:21

21What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

2 Corinthians 4:2

2But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

Proverbs 6:33

33He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped away.

2 Samuel 12:9

9Why have you despised the LORD’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

Ephesians 5:12

12For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.

Revelation 16:15

15“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”