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Jacob set up a stone on edge in that place where God had talked to him, and he poured a drink offering and olive oil on it to make it special for God.

Adah gave birth to Eliphaz for Esau. Basemath gave him Reuel,

Esau and Jacob's belongings were becoming too many for them to live in the same land. The land where they had lived could not support both of them, because they had too many herds.

The sons of Zibeon were Aiah and Anah. Anah is the man who found the hot springs in the desert while he was caring for his father's donkeys.

This is the family history of Jacob: Joseph was a young man, seventeen years old. He and his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives, cared for the flocks. Joseph gave his father bad reports about his brothers.

a man found him wandering in the field and asked him, "What are you looking for?"

Joseph answered, "I am looking for my brothers. Can you tell me where they are grazing the flocks?"

The man said, "They have already gone. I heard them say they were going to Dothan." So Joseph went to look for his brothers and found them in Dothan.

So when the Midianite traders came by, the brothers took Joseph out of the well and sold him to the Ishmaelites for eight ounces of silver. And the Ishmaelites took him to Egypt.

Then Jacob tore his clothes and put on rough cloth to show that he was upset, and he continued to be sad about his son for a long time.

All of his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he could not be comforted. He said, "I will be sad about my son until the day I die." So Jacob cried for his son Joseph.

Then Judah said to Er's brother Onan, "Go and have sexual relations with your dead brother's wife. It is your duty to provide children for your brother in this way."

But Onan knew that the children would not belong to him, so when he was supposed to have sexual relations with Tamar he did not complete the sex act. This made it impossible for Tamar to become pregnant and for Er to have descendants.

So she took off the clothes that showed she was a widow and covered her face with a veil to hide who she was. Then she sat down by the gate of Enaim on the road to Timnah. She did this because Judah's younger son Shelah had grown up, but Judah had not made plans for her to marry him.

When the time came for Tamar to give birth, there were twins in her body.

The prison warden chose Joseph to take care of all the prisoners, and he was responsible for whatever was done in the prison.

The captain of the guard put the two prisoners in Joseph's care, and they stayed in prison for some time.

Then Joseph said, "I will explain the dream to you. The three branches stand for three days.

In the top basket were all kinds of baked food for the king, but the birds were eating this food out of the basket on my head."

Joseph answered, "I will tell you what the dream means. The three baskets stand for three days.