Beresheet, starting at chapter 37
{37:1} Ya`akov lived in the land of his father's travels, in the
land of Kana`an. {37:2} This is the history of the generations of
Ya`akov. Yosef, 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. Yosef brought an evil report of them to their father.
{37:3} Now Yisra'el loved Yosef 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} Yosef 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 [1>]eretz[<1]?" {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 Shekhem.
{37:13} Yisra'el said to Yosef, "Aren't your brothers feeding the
flock in Shekhem? 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 Hevron, and he came to Shekhem. {37:15}
A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field:
and the man asked him, saying, "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 Dotan.'"
Yosef went after his brothers, and found them in Dotan. {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} Re'uven heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and
said, "Let's not take his life." {37:22} Re'uven 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 Yosef came to his
brothers, that they stripped Yosef 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 Yishme`elim was coming from Gil`ad,
with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it
down to Mitzrayim. {37:26} Yehudah 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 Yishme`elim, and not let our hand be on him; for
he is our brother, our flesh." His brothers listened to him. {37:28}
Midyanim who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up
Yosef out of the pit, and sold Yosef to the Yishme`elim for twenty
pieces of silver. They brought Yosef into Mitzrayim.
{37:29} Re'uven returned to the pit; and saw that Yosef 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 Yosef'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. Yosef is without doubt torn in pieces."
{37:34} Ya`akov tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, 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 She'ol to my son mourning." His father
wept for him. {37:36} The Midyanim sold him into Mitzrayim to Potifar,
an officer of Par`oh's, the captain of the guard.
{38:1} It happened at that time, that Yehudah went down from his
brothers, and visited a certain `Adullami, whose name was Hirah.
{38:2} Yehudah saw there a daughter of a certain Kana`ani whose name
was Shu`a. 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 Shelach: and he was at Keziv, when she bore him. {38:6}
Yehudah took a wife for `Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
{38:7} `Er, Yehudah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD.
The LORD killed him. {38:8} 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." {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 Yehudah said to Tamar,
his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, until
Shelach, 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, Shu`a'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 `Adullami. {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 `Enayim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw
that Shelach was grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife.
{38:15} When Yehudah 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 kid of the goats 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} Yehudah sent the kid of
the goats by the hand of his friend, the `Adullami, 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 `Enayim by the road?"
They said, "There has been no prostitute here."
{38:22} He returned to Yehudah, and said, "I haven't found her; and
also the men of the place said, 'There has been no prostitute here.'"
{38:23} Yehudah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I
sent this kid, and you haven't found her."
{38:24} It happened about three months later, that it was told
Yehudah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the
prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution."
Yehudah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt." {38:25} When
she was brought forth, 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} Yehudah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous
than I, because I didn't give her to Shelach, 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} It happened,
when she travailed, that 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 Peretz. {38:30} Afterward his
brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his
name was called Zerach.
{39:1} Yosef was brought down to Mitzrayim. Potifar, an officer of
Par`oh's, the captain of the guard, a Mitzrian, bought him from the
hand of the Yishme`elim that had brought him down there. {39:2} The
LORD was with Yosef, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house
of his master the Mitzrian. {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} Yosef 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
Mitzrian's house for Yosef'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 Yosef's hand. He didn't concern himself with anything,
except for the food which he ate.
Yosef was well-built and handsome. {39:7} It happened after these
things, that his master's wife cast her eyes on Yosef; 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} It happened that as she spoke to Yosef day by day, that he
didn't listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her. {39:11} It
happened about this time, that 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} It
happened, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and
had run outside, {39:14} that 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} Yosef's master took him, and put
him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound,
and he was there in the custody. {39:21} But the LORD was with Yosef,
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
Yosef's hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they
did there, he was the doer of 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] {37:10} earth
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