If you do well, is there not exaltation? And if you do not do well, sin is lying at the door. And its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.

And he said, What pledge shall I give you? So she said, Your signet ring and cord, and your staff that is in your hand. And he gave them to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him.

And Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand, but he did not find her.

So he returned to Judah and said, I have not found her. Also, the men of the place said there was no harlot there.

And he said, I have sinned; yet honor me now, please, before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may bow down before Jehovah your God.

Though evil is sweet in his mouth, and he hides it under his tongue,

yet his food in his stomach has churned up; it is serpent's venom within him.

He who covers his sins shall not prosper; but he who confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy.

Therefore Jehovah said, Whereas this people draw near with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but have removed their hearts far from Me, and their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men;

But he denied it before them all, saying, I do not know what you are saying.

And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man!

Then he began to curse and swear, saying, I do not know the Man! And immediately a rooster crowed.