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But Onan knew that the offspring would not belong to him; so whenever he would sleep with his brother's wife, he would spill his seed on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.

"I will send you a young goat from my flock," Judah answered. But she replied, "Only if you leave me something as a pledge until you send it."

"Let her keep the items," Judah replied. "Otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you could not find her."

But when he pulled his hand back and his brother came out, she said, "You have broken out first!" So he was named Perez.

But he refused. "Look," he said to his master's wife, "with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care.

She grabbed Joseph by his cloak and said, "Sleep with me!" But leaving his garment in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.

she called her household servants. "Look," she said, "this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, but I screamed as loud as I could.

but when I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house."

"We both had dreams," they replied, "but there is no one to interpret them." Then Joseph said to them, "Don't interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams."

But when it goes well for you, please remember me and show me kindness by mentioning me to Pharaoh, that he might bring me out of this prison.

In the top basket were all sorts of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head."

But Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had interpreted the dream to them.

but he fell back asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, came up on one stalk.

In the morning his spirit was troubled, so he summoned all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.

Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have received word about you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."

"I myself cannot do it," Joseph replied, "but God will give Pharaoh a sound answer."

And the thin heads of grain swallowed the seven plump ones. I told this dream to the magicians, but no one could explain it to me."

but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten and the famine will devastate the land.

And Pharaoh declared to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, but without your permission, no one in all the land of Egypt shall lift his hand or foot."

But Jacob did not send Joseph's brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, "I am afraid that harm might befall him."