A prostitute is paid, but you gave presents to all your lovers and bribed them to come from everywhere to sleep with you.

Judah sent his friend Hirah to take the goat and get back from the woman the articles he had pledged, but Hirah could not find her.

About three months later someone told Judah, "Your daughter-in-law Tamar has been acting like a whore, and now she is pregnant." Judah ordered, "Take her out and burn her to death."

As she was being taken out, she sent word to her father-in-law: "I am pregnant by the man who owns these things. Look at them and see whose they are---this seal with its cord and this walking stick."

Anyone stupid enough to promise to be responsible for a stranger's debts ought to have their own property held to guarantee payment.

As a result the master of this dishonest manager praised him for doing such a shrewd thing; because the people of this world are much more shrewd in handling their affairs than the people who belong to the light."