Genesis 38:25

"When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, By the man whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose these are, the signet, and the cords, and the staff."

One can hardly resist putting an exclamation point after the above verse. Who brought those tokens to Judah, the clan leader, who had the power of life and death over its members? Did Tamar's father do so? Whoever did it, there was not a soul in the whole company attending what they thought would be an execution who did not recognize the items as the personal property of Judah. It was a climax nobody but Tamar had anticipated. This event can never die, for it is the truth. There was no way for Judah to deny it; to have done so would have made his name infamous forever, and it would have incurred the hostility and revenge of Tamar's entire generation. Judah did the honorable thing, with one little face-saving exception. (See the next verse.)