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Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house till my son Shelah is grown." For he said, "Lest he also die like his brothers." And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.

So she took off her widow's garments, covered herself with a veil and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place which was on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given to him as a wife.

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

Then Judah said, "Let her take them for herself, lest we be shamed; for I sent this young goat and you have not found her."

Now it came to pass, at the time for giving birth, that behold, twins were in her womb.

So it was, from the time that he had made him overseer of his house and all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was on all that he had in the house and in the field.

Thus he left all that he had in Joseph's hand, and he did not know what he had except for the bread which he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.

And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them; so they were in custody for a while.

For indeed I was stolen away from the land of the Hebrews; and also I have done nothing here that they should put me into the dungeon."

In the uppermost basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head."

Now it came to pass on the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants; and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.

Now it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. And Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them for Pharaoh.

Now there was a young Hebrew man with us there, a servant of the captain of the guard. And we told him, and he interpreted our dreams for us; to each man he interpreted according to his own dream.

And it came to pass, just as he interpreted for us, so it happened. He restored me to my office, and he hanged him."

When they had eaten them up, no one would have known that they had eaten them, for they were just as ugly as at the beginning. So I awoke.

So the plenty will not be known in the land because of the famine following, for it will be very severe.

Then that food shall be as a reserve for the land for the seven years of famine which shall be in the land of Egypt, that the land may not perish during the famine."

Joseph gathered very much grain, as the sand of the sea, until he stopped counting, for it was immeasurable.

Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: [fn] "For God has made me forget all my toil and all my father's house."

And the name of the second he called Ephraim: [fn] "For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction."