Genesis, starting at chapter 37
{37:1} Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land
of Canaan. {37:2} This is the history of the generations of Jacob.
Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his
brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his
father's wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.
{37:3} Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he
was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.
{37:4} His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his
brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.
{37:5} Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and
they hated him all the more. {37:6} He said to them, "Please hear this
dream which I have dreamed: {37:7} for behold, we were binding sheaves
in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and
behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf."
{37:8} His brothers said to him, "Will you indeed reign over us? Or
will you indeed have dominion over us?" They hated him all the more
for his dreams and for his words. {37:9} He dreamed yet another dream,
and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet
another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed
down to me." {37:10} He told it to his father and to his brothers. His
father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have
dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow
ourselves down to you to the earth?" {37:11} His brothers envied him,
but his father kept this saying in mind.
{37:12} His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
{37:13} Israel said to Joseph, "Aren't your brothers feeding the flock
in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." He said to him, "Here
I am."
{37:14} He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your
brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again." So he
sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem. {37:15}
A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field.
The man asked him, "What are you looking for?"
{37:16} He said, "I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please,
where they are feeding the flock."
{37:17} The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say,
'Let us go to Dothan.'"
Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan. {37:18}
They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired
against him to kill him. {37:19} They said one to another, "Behold,
this dreamer comes. {37:20} Come now therefore, and let's kill him,
and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal
has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."
{37:21} Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and
said, "Let's not take his life." {37:22} Reuben said to them, "Shed no
blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no
hand on him"--that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore
him to his father. {37:23} It happened, when Joseph came to his
brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many
colors that was on him; {37:24} and they took him, and threw him into
the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.
{37:25} They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes
and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead,
with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it
down to Egypt. {37:26} Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it
if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? {37:27} Come, and let's
sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is
our brother, our flesh." His brothers listened to him. {37:28}
Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up
Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty
pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.
{37:29} Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn't in
the pit; and he tore his clothes. {37:30} He returned to his brothers,
and said, "The child is no more; and I, where will I go?" {37:31} They
took Joseph's coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the
blood. {37:32} They took the coat of many colors, 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."
{37:33} He recognized it, and said, "It is my son's coat. An evil
animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces."
{37:34} Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and
mourned for his son many days. {37:35} 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 [1>]Sheol[<1] to my son mourning." His
father wept for him. {37:36} The Midianites sold him into Egypt to
Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.
{38:1} It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his
brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
{38:2} Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name
was Shua. He took her, and went in to her. {38:3} She conceived, and
bore a son; and he named him Er. {38:4} She conceived again, and bore
a son; and she named him Onan. {38:5} She yet again bore a son, and
named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him. {38:6}
Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
{38:7} Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD. The
LORD killed him. {38:8} Judah 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." {38:9} 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.
{38:10} The thing which he did was evil in the sight of the LORD, and
he killed him also. {38:11} Then Judah 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.
{38:12} After many days, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died.
Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers to Timnah, he
and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite. {38:13} It was told Tamar,
saying, "Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his
sheep." {38:14} 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. {38:15} When
Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had
covered her face. {38:16} He turned to her by the way, and said,
"Please come, 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?"
{38:17} He said, "I will send you a young goat from the flock."
She said, "Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?"
{38:18} He said, "What pledge will I give you?"
She said, "Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your
hand."
He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.
{38:19} She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and
put on the garments of her widowhood. {38:20} Judah sent the young
goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge
from the woman's hand, but he didn't find her. {38:21} Then he asked
the men of her place, saying, "Where is the prostitute, that was at
Enaim by the road?"
They said, "There has been no prostitute here."
{38:22} He returned to Judah, and said, "I haven't found her; and
also the men of the place said, 'There has been no prostitute here.'"
{38:23} Judah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I
sent this young goat, and you haven't found her."
{38:24} It happened about three months later, that it was told
Judah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the
prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution."
Judah said, "Bring her out, and let her be burnt." {38:25} When she
was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, "By the man,
whose these are, I am with child." She also said, "Please discern
whose are these--the signet, and the cords, and the staff."
{38:26} Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous
than I, because I didn't give her to Shelah, my son."
He knew her again no more. {38:27} It happened in the time of her
travail, that behold, twins were in her womb. {38:28} When she
travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet
thread on his hand, saying, "This came out first." {38:29} It
happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out,
and she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?" Therefore his
name was called [2>]Perez.[<2] {38:30} Afterward his brother came out,
that had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called
[3>]Zerah.[<3]
{39:1} Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of
Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the
hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there. {39:2} The
LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house
of his master the Egyptian. {39:3} His master saw that the LORD was
with him, and that the LORD made all that he did prosper in his hand.
{39:4} Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and he
made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his
hand. {39:5} It happened from the time that he made him overseer in
his house, and over 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. {39:6} He left all
that he had in Joseph's hand. He didn't concern himself with anything,
except for the food which he ate.
Joseph was well-built and handsome. {39:7} It happened after these
things, that his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph; and she said,
"Lie with me."
{39:8} But he refused, and said to his master's wife, "Behold, my
master doesn't know what is with me in the house, and he has put all
that he has into my hand. {39:9} He isn't greater in this house than
I, neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are
his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against
God?"
{39:10} As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn't listen to her,
to lie by her, or to be with her. {39:11} About this time, he went
into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the
house inside. {39:12} She caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with
me!"
He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside. {39:13} When she
saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside,
{39:14} she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying,
"Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. He came in to me
to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice. {39:15} It happened,
when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his
garment by me, and ran outside." {39:16} She laid up his garment by
her, until his master came home. {39:17} She spoke to him according to
these words, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us,
came in to me to mock me, {39:18} and it happened, as I lifted up my
voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside."
{39:19} It happened, when his master heard the words of his wife,
which she spoke to him, saying, "This is what your servant did to me,"
that his wrath was kindled. {39:20} Joseph's master took him, and put
him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound,
and he was there in custody. {39:21} But the LORD was with Joseph, and
showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper
of the prison. {39:22} The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's
hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did
there, he was responsible for it. {39:23} The keeper of the prison
didn't look after anything that was under his hand, because the LORD
was with him; and that which he did, the LORD made it prosper.
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Footnotes:
[1] {37:35} Sheol is the place of the dead.
[2] {38:29} Perez means "breaking out."
[3] {38:30} Zerah means "scarlet" or "brightness."
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