Genesis 38:21-23

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²¹ So he asked around of the men of the city, “Where does the prostitute live who was soliciting out beside the road at the entrance of the village?”

“But we’ve never had a public prostitute here,” they replied. ²² So he returned to Judah and told him he couldn’t find her anywhere, and what the men of the place had told him.

²³ “Then let her keep them!” Judah exclaimed. “We tried our best. We’d be the laughingstock of the town to go back again.”