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So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

So Esau lived in the hill country of Seir; Esau is Edom.

And his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and so they hated him and could not speak to him in peace.

Then Joseph had a dream, and he told it to his brothers; so they hated him even more.

Then his brothers said to him, "Are you really going to reign over us? Or are you really going to rule over us?" So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.

Then he said to him, "Go now and see about the welfare of your brothers and the welfare of the flock, and bring word back to me." So he sent him from the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

Then the man said, "They have journeyed from here; for I heard them saying, ‘Let us go to Dothan.'" So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.

So now, come and let us kill him and cast him into one of the pits; and we will say, ‘A wild beast devoured him.' Then let us see what will become of his dreams!"

Then some Midianite traders passed by, so they pulled him up and lifted Joseph out of the pit and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. Thus they brought Joseph into Egypt.

Then Reuben returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph was not in the pit; so he tore his garments.

So they took Joseph's tunic and slaughtered a male goat and dipped the tunic in the blood;

So Jacob tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.

Then all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. And he said, "Surely I will go down to Sheol in mourning for my son." So his father wept for him.

So she conceived and bore a son, and he named him Er.

But Er, Judah's firstborn, was evil in the sight of Yahweh, so Yahweh put him to death.

But what he did was displeasing in the sight of Yahweh; so He put him to death also.

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Live as a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up"; for he thought, "I am afraid lest he also die like his brothers." So Tamar went and lived in her father's house.

So she removed her widow's garments from herself and covered herself with a veil and wrapped herself. And she sat at the entrance of Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she had not been given to him as a wife.

So he turned aside to her by the road and said, "Here now, let me come in to you"; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"

Then he said, "What pledge shall I give you?" And she said, "Your signet and your cord and your staff that is in your hand." So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him.