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

So she conceived and gave birth to a son, and Judah named him Er.

But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the LORD's sight; so the LORD put him to death.

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.

What he did was evil in the LORD's sight, so He put Onan to death as well.

Then Judah 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, like his brothers." So Tamar went to live in her father's house.

"What pledge should I give you?" he asked. She answered, "Your seal and your cord, and the staff in your hand." So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.

So Hirah returned to Judah and said, "I could not find her, and furthermore, the men of that place said, 'No temple prostitute has been here.'"

And as she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it around his wrist. "This one came out first," she announced.

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

So Potiphar left all that he owned in Joseph's care; he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome,

No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?"

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.

So Potiphar's wife kept Joseph's garment beside her until his master came home.

So Joseph's master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the king's prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,

who put all those held in the prison under Joseph's authority, so that he was responsible for all that was done there.

So he asked Pharaoh's officials who were in custody with him in his master's house, "Why are your faces so downcast today?"

So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream: "In my dream there was a vine before me,

Pharaoh restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand.

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.