Genesis 38:23 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 38:23

“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.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Lest he should be laughed at as a fool for trusting a whore with his signet and his bracelets. He expresses no concern about the sin, only about the shame. There are many who are more solicitous to preserve their reputation with men, than to secure the savour of God, lest we be shamed goes farther with them than lest we be damned.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
יְהוּדָה֙	ye.hu.Dah	Judah	H3063 →
תִּֽקַּֽח־	ti.kach-	let her take [them]	H3947 →
לָ֔הּ	Lah	for <the> herself
פֶּ֖ן	pen	lest	H6435 →
נִהְיֶ֣ה	nih.Yeh	we should become	H1961 →
לָב֑וּז	la.Vuz	<into> contempt	H937 →
הִנֵּ֤ה	hi.Neh	there!	H2009 →
שָׁלַ֙חְתִּי֙	sha.Lach.ti	I sent	H7971 →
הַגְּדִ֣י	ha.ge.Di	the kid	H1423 →
הַזֶּ֔ה	ha.Zeh	<the> this	H2088 →
וְאַתָּ֖ה	ve.'a.Tah	and you	H859 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
מְצָאתָֽהּ׃	me.tza.Tah	you found her	H4672 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Revelation 16:15
“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who remains awake and clothed, so that he will not go naked and let his shame be exposed.”
leads to
- 1 Thessalonians 5:2–3
  For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
- Matthew 24:42–43
  Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.
- Revelation 3:18
  I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to…
- 2 Peter 3:10
  But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid…
- Revelation 3:3–4
  Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will…
Through
2 Corinthians 4:2
Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to…
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 2:17
  For we are not like so many others, who peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as men sent from God.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:3–5
  For our appeal does not arise from deceit or ulterior motives or trickery.
Through
Ephesians 5:12
For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.
leads to
- Ephesians 5:3
  But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.