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Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Yoseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his
clothes. He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I
go?” They took Yoseph’s coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.
They took the coat of long sleeves, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have
found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son’s coat or not.”
He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s coat. An evil animal has devoured him.
Yoseph is without doubt torn in pieces.” Ya`aqob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his
waist, and mourned for his son many days. All his sons and all his daughters rose up to
comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my
son mourning.” His father wept for him. The Midianites sold him into Mitsrayim to
Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.

It happened at that time, that Yehudah went down from his brothers, and visited a
certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. Yehudah saw there a daughter of a certain
Kayinanite whose name was Shua. He took her, and went in to her. She conceived, and
bore a son; and he named him Er. She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him
Onan. She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Kezib, when she
bore him.
Yehudah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. Er, Yehudah’s
firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh killed him. Yehudah said to Onan,
“Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise
up seed to your brother.” Onan knew that the seed wouldn’t be his; and it happened, when
he went in to his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to
his brother. The thing which he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he killed him
also. Then Yehudah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s
house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up”; for he said, “Lest he also die, like his brothers.”
Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.
After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Yehudah, died. Yehudah was
comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the
Adullamite. It was told Tamar, saying, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah
to shear his sheep.” She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered
herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the
way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a
wife. When Yehudah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her
face. He turned to her by the way, and said, “Come now, let me come in to you,” for he
didn’t know that she was his daughter-in-law.
She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”
He said, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.”

She said, “Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?”

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