...open place, " he thought her to be a harlot." " And he turned unto her by the way and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee. And she said, What wilt thou give me ? " This may be taken as the earliest record of prostitution, though the reason...

...'Come I pray thee, let me lie with thee'; the Authorised Version is wordy, and makes Juda say, 'Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee . . . And she said, what wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?' A different kind of physicality, again powerful...