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another, “Look, this dreamer is coming! 33 And he recognized it and said, “It is my
20 Come therefore, let us now kill him and cast son’s tunic. A wild beast has devoured him.
him into some pit; and we shall say, ‘Some wild Without doubt Joseph is torn to pieces.”
beast has devoured him.’ We shall see what 34 Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth on
will become of his dreams!” his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
21 But Reuben heard it, and he delivered him 35 And all his sons and all his daughters arose
out of their hands, and said, “Let us not kill to comfort him; but he refused to be comfort-
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him.” And Reuben said to them, “Shed no ed, and he said, “For I shall go down into the
blood, but cast him into this pit which is in the grave to my son in mourning.” Thus his father
wilderness, and do not lay a hand on him”— wept for him.
that he might deliver him out of their hands, 36 Now the Midianites had sold him in Egypt
and bring him back to his father. to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain
23 So it came to pass, when Joseph had come of the guard.
to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of It came to pass at that time that Judah
his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on 38 departed from his brothers, and vis-
him. Then they took him and cast him into a ited a certain Adullamite whose name was
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pit. And the pit was empty; there was no water Hirah. And Judah saw there a daughter of a
in it. certain Canaanite whose name was Shua, and
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25 And they sat down to eat a meal. Then they he married her and went in to her. So she con-
lifted their eyes and looked, and there was a ceived and bore a son, and he called his name
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company of Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead Er. She conceived again and bore a son, and
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with their camels, bearing spices, balm, and she called his name Onan. And she conceived
myrrh, on their way to carry them down to yet again and bore a son, and called his name
Egypt. So Judah said to his brothers, “What Shelah. He was at Chezib when she bore him.
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profit is there if we kill our brother and conceal 6 Then Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn,
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his blood? Come and let us sell him to the and her name was Tamar. But Er, Judah’s
Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD,
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for he is our brother and our flesh.” And his and the LORD killed him. And Judah said to
brothers listened. Then Midianite traders Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife and marry
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passed by; so the brothers pulled Joseph up her, and raise up an heir to your brother.” But
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and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to Onan knew that the heir would not be his; and
the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. it came to pass, when he went in to his broth-
And they took Joseph to Egypt. er’s wife, that he emitted on the ground, lest
29 Then Reuben returned to the pit, and he should give an heir to his brother. And the
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indeed Joseph was not in the pit; and he tore thing which he did displeased the LORD; there-
his clothes. And he returned to his brothers fore He killed him also.
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and said, “The lad is no more; and I, where 11 Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-
shall I go?” law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house
31 So they took Joseph’s tunic, killed a kid of till my son Shelah is grown.” For he said, “Lest
the goats, and dipped the tunic in the blood. he also die like his brothers.” And Tamar went
32 Then they sent the tunic of many colors, and and dwelt in her father’s house.
they brought it to their father and said, “We 12 Now in the process of time the daughter of
have found this. Do you know whether it is Shua, Judah’s wife, died; and Judah was com-
your son’s tunic or not?” forted, and went up to his sheepshearers at
Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the
Adullamite. And it was told Tamar, saying,
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“Look, your father-in-law is going up to
Timnah to shear his sheep.” So she took off
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her widow’s garments, covered herself with a
37:36 Potiphar. He was a prominent court
official and high-ranking officer in Egypt, per- veil and wrapped herself, and sat in an open
haps captain of the royal bodyguard (see place which was on the way to Timnah; for she
40:3,4).His name,a most unusual grammatical saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not
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form for that period, either meant “the one given to him as a wife. When Judah saw her,
whom the god Ra has given”or “the one who is he thought she was a harlot, because she had
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placed on earth by Ra,”making it a descriptive covered her face. Then he turned to her by
epithet more than a personal name. the way, and said, “Please let me come in to
you”; for he did not know that she was his
daughter-in-law.
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