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21 He asked some men who lived there, ‘Where is the temple prostitute who sat by the road at Enaim?’[a] But the men said, ‘There has not been any prostitute here.’

22 So Hirah went back to Judah, with the goat. He told him, ‘I did not find her. The men who lived there said, “There has not been any temple prostitute here.” ’ 23 So Judah said, ‘Let her keep the things that I gave to her. People will laugh at me if you go back there again. I sent this young goat for her, as I promised, but you could not find her.’

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Footnotes

  1. 38:21 A temple prostitute sat at a place where people worshipped foreign gods.