Genesis 38:15

15 When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

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Genesis 38:15 in Other Translations

KJV

15 When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.

ESV

15 When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

NLT

15 Judah noticed her and thought she was a prostitute, since she had covered her face.

MSG

15 Judah saw her and assumed she was a prostitute since she had veiled her face.

CSB

15 When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

Genesis 38:15 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 38:15

When Judah saw her, he thought her [to be] an harlot
By her posture and the place she was in: because she had covered her face;
with her veil, that he did not know her; for this is not given as a reason why he took her to be an harlot; the reason of this was, because she sat in the public road; but having covered her face he could not discern who she was, and therefore, from the other circumstance, concluded that she was an harlot, and sat there to prostitute herself to any that passed by.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Genesis 38:15 In-Context

13 When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,”

14 she took off her widow’s clothes, covered herself with a veil to disguise herself, and then sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had now grown up, she had not been given to him as his wife.

15 When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

16 Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “And what will you give me to sleep with you?” she asked.

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.

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1. Judges 11:1; Judges 16:1

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