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Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and mourned for his son many days.

All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. "No," he said, "in mourning will I go down to the grave to my son." So his father wept for him.

Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

Then Judah said to Onan, "Lie with your brother's wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to produce offspring for your brother."

But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so whenever he lay with his brother's wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from producing offspring for his brother.

Judah then said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Live as a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up." For he thought, "He may die too, just like his brothers." So Tamar went to live in her father's house.

she took off her widow's clothes, covered herself with a veil to disguise herself, and then sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had now grown up, she had not been given to him as his wife.

When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb.

When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house."

But as soon as I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house."

So the warden put Joseph in charge of all those held in the prison, and he was made responsible for all that was done there.

The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he attended them. After they had been in custody for some time,

For I was forcibly carried off from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing to deserve being put in a dungeon."

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

Now the third day was Pharaoh's birthday, and he gave a feast for all his officials. He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker in the presence of his officials:

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

Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams, and he interpreted them for us, giving each man the interpretation of his dream.

So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and he was quickly brought from the dungeon. When he had shaved and changed his clothes, he came before Pharaoh.

"And now let Pharaoh look for a discerning and wise man and put him in charge of the land of Egypt.