“And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?”
Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said: come now, let me sleep with you. And what will you give me? she asked. The transaction is initiated; Tamar's question — what will you give me — is the first step in obtaining the pledge she needs. The application: Tamar is conducting a transaction with precise intentionality. Her plan requires the pledge.
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