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And they took Joseph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;
32
And
they sent the coat of
many
colours, and they brought
it
to their father; and said, This have we found:
know now whether it
be
thy son’s coat or no.
33
And he knew it, and said,
It is
my son’s coat; an
evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.
34
And Jacob rent his clothes,
and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
35
And all his sons and all
his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go
down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
36
And the Midianites
sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s,
and
captain of the guard.
CHAPTER 38
And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain
Adullamite, whose name
was
Hirah.
2
And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose
name
was
Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.
3
And she conceived, and bare a son; and
he called his name Er.
4
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan.
5
And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib,
when she bare him.
6
And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name
was
Tamar.
7
And
Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the L
ORD
; and the L
ORD
slew him.
8
And Judah
said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
9
And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his
brother’s wife, that he spilled
it
on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
10
And
the thing which he did displeased the L
ORD
: wherefore he slew him also.
11
Then said Judah to
Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father’s house, till Shelah my son be grown:
for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren
did.
And Tamar went and dwelt in her
father’s house.
12
And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah’s wife died; and Judah was comforted,
and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
13
And it
was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.
14
And
she put her widow’s garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and
sat in an open place, which
is
by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she
was not given unto him to wife.
15
When Judah saw her, he thought her
to be
an harlot; because
she had covered her face.
16
And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me
come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she
was
his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou
give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?
17
And he said, I will send
thee
a kid from the flock.
And she said, Wilt thou give
me
a pledge, till thou send
it?
18
And he said, What pledge shall I
give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that
is
in thine hand. And he
gave
it
her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.
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And she arose, and went away, and
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