Genesis 38:17

WEB

He said, "I will send you a kid of the goats from the flock." She said, "Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?"

KJV

And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?

Commentary

And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock,.... Either from Timnath, where his flock was shearing, or rather from Adull am, where he lived; since it is probable he was now returning from Timnath, where he had been feasting and making merry with his shearers, and so in a disposition to commit such an action: and she said, wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it? she made no objection to the hire or present, only required a pawn, or security for it till she had it; and this was her view indeed in asking an hire that she might have something to produce, should she prove with child by him, to convince him by whom it was.