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Selected Verse: Genesis 38:18 - Strong Concordance

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Ge 38:18 Strong Concordance And he said [0559], What [0834] pledge [06162] shall I give [05414] thee? And she said [0559], Thy signet [02368], and thy bracelets [06616], and thy staff [04294] that is in thine hand [03027]. And he gave [05414] it her, and came in [0935] unto her, and she conceived [02029] by him.
  King James And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
signet, &c.--Bracelets, including armlets, were worn by men as well as women among the Hebrews. But the Hebrew word here rendered "bracelets," is everywhere else translated "lace" or "ribbon"; so that as the signet alone was probably more than an equivalent for the kid, it is not easy to conjecture why the other things were given in addition, except by supposing the perforated seal was attached by a ribbon to the staff.
 
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