And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?
I will send thee a kid from the flock. A kid-a roasted kid-was considered a very great delicacy in the East. And this fact may show in what light we are to regard the recompense offered to Tamar (cf. Judges 15:1; Luke 15:29). Tuch considers that it was given because the kid was sacred to Ashtoreth (the Canaanite Venus).