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But actually he was strongly attracted to Dinah the daughter of Ya‘akov; he fell in love with the girl and tried to win her affection.

But Hamor said to them, "My son Sh'khem's heart is set on your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife;

But if you won't do as we say and get circumcised, then we'll take our daughter and go away."

But the people will consent to live with us and become one people only on this condition: that every male among us gets circumcised, as they themselves are circumcised.

But Ya‘akov said to Shim‘on and Levi, "You have caused me trouble by making me stink in the opinion of the local inhabitants, the Kena‘ani and the P'rizi. Since I don't have many people, they'll align themselves together against me and attack me; and I will be destroyed, I and my household."

God said to him, "Your name is Ya‘akov, but you will be called Ya‘akov no longer; your name will be Isra'el." Thus he named him Isra'el.

But she died in childbirth. As she was dying she named her son Ben-Oni [son of my grief], but his father called him Binyamin [son of the right hand, son of the south].

He told his father too, as well as his brothers, but his father rebuked him: "What is this dream you have had? Do you really expect me, your mother and your brothers to come and prostrate ourselves before you on the ground?"

His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

But when Re'uven heard this, he saved him from being destroyed by them. He said, "We shouldn't take his life.

Don't shed blood," Re'uven added. "Throw him into this cistern here in the wilds, but don't lay hands on him yourselves." He intended to rescue him from them later and restore him to his father.

Then they sat down to eat their meal; but as they looked up, they saw in front of them a caravan of Yishma‘elim coming from Gil‘ad, their camels loaded with aromatic gum, healing resin and opium, on their way down to Egypt.

But ‘Er, Y'hudah's firstborn, was evil from Adonai 's perspective, so Adonai killed him.

So she took off her widow's clothes, completely covered her face with her veil, and sat at the entrance to ‘Einayim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah had grown up, but she still was not being given to him as his wife.

Y'hudah sent the kid with his friend the ‘Adulami to receive the guarantee items back from the woman, but he couldn't find her.

He asked the people near where she had been, "Where is the prostitute who was on the road at ‘Einayim?" But they answered, "There hasn't been any prostitute here."

Y'hudah said, "All right, let her keep the things, so that we won't be publicly shamed. I sent the kid, but you didn't find her."

But then he withdrew his hand, and his brother came out; so she said, "How did you manage to break out first?" Therefore he was named Peretz [breaking out].

But he refused, saying to his master's wife, "Look, because my master has me, he doesn't know what's going on in this house. He has put all his possessions in my charge.

But she kept pressing him, day after day. Nevertheless, he didn't listen to her; he refused to sleep with her or even be with her.