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Judah and Tamar

Genesis 38:22

In 11 translations

BSB
So Hirah returned to Judah and said, “I could not find her, and furthermore, the men of that place said, ‘No shrine prostitute has been here.’”
KJV
And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place.
WEB
He returned to Judah, and said, “I haven’t found her; and also the men of the place said, ‘There has been no prostitute here.’”
ASV
And he returned to Judah, and said, I have not found her; and also the men of the place said, There hath been no prostitute here.
LSV
And he turns back to Judah and says, “I have not found her; and the men of the place also have said, There has not been in this [place] a separated one,”
YLT
And he turneth back unto Judah, and saith, 'I have not found her; and the men of the place also have said, There hath not been in this [place] a separated one,'
DBY
And he returned to Judah, and said, I have not found her; and also the men of the place said, No prostitute has been here.
DRC
He returned to Juda, and said to him: I have not found her; moreover the men of that place said to me, that there never sat a harlot there.
GNV
He came therefore to Iudah againe, and said, I can not finde her, and also the men of the place said, There was no whore there.
JPS
And he returned to Judah, and said: 'I have not found her; and also the men of the place said: There hath been no harlot here.'
LXXE
And he returned to Judas, and said, I have not found her; and the men of the place say, There is no harlot here.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיָּ֨שָׁב֙ אֶל־יְהוּדָ֔ה וַיֹּ֖אמֶר לֹ֣א מְצָאתִ֑יהָ וְגַ֨ם אַנְשֵׁ֤י הַמָּקוֹם֙ אָֽמְר֔וּ לֹא־הָיְתָ֥ה בָזֶ֖ה קְדֵשָֽׁה׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἀπεστράφη πρὸς Ἰούδαν, καὶ εἶπεν, οὐχ εὗρον· καὶ οἱ ἄνθρωποι οἱ ἐκ τοῦ τόπου λέγουσι, μὴ εἶναι ὧδε πόρνην.

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