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And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

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 to Sheol to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.

And Judah took a wife for Er his first-born, and her name was Tamar.

Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow in your father's house, until Shelah my son is grown up; for he said, Or else he will also die, like his brothers. And Tamar went and remained in her father's house.

And she put off from her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't given to him as wife.

When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a prostitute; for she had covered her face.

And he turned to her by the way, and said, Come, I pray you, let me come in to you: for he didn't know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What will you give me, that you may come in to me?

And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, look, his brother came out: and she said, Why have you made a breach for yourself? Therefore his name was called Perez.

And it came to pass from the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that Yahweh blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of Yahweh was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.

for indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.

and in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of baked food for Pharaoh; and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.

And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the sacred scholars of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them the things he dreamt; but there was none that could interpret them to Pharaoh.

and see, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:

and the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it shall be very grievous.

And let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

And the food shall be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine.

And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering; for it was without number.

And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: For, [he said], God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.

And the name of the second he called Ephraim: For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.

And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph; what he says to you, do.