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And Reuben said to them, Shed no blood; throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but do not harm him; that he might deliver him from their hands, and bring him back to his father.

And it came to pass, when Joseph was come to his brothers, they stripped him of the rich robe that he was wearing;

And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?

Come, let us sell him to the Arabians, and let us not harm him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brothers listened to him.

And then Reuben returned to the pit, and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

And he returned to his brothers, and said to them, Where is the boy; and as for me, where shall I go?

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

And all his sons and all his daughters made an effort to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, I will go down to Sheol, to my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

AND it came to pass at that time that Judah went down from his brothers, and turned in to a certain Arlemite, whose name was Hirah.

And she conceived, and bore a son; and he called his name Er.

And she conceived again, and bore a son; and he called his name Onan.

And she conceived again, and bore a son; and he called his name Shelah; and after she bore him she stopped bearing.

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

And Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; and it came to pass when he went in unto his brothers wife that he spilled the semen on the ground, lest that he should raise an offspring to his brother.

Then said Judah to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow in your fathers house, until my son Shelah grows up; for he said. Lest he die also, as his brothers did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her fathers house.

And in the course of time Shuahs daughter, the wife of Judah, died; and Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Arlemite.

And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold your father-in-law is going up to Timnath to shear his sheep.

And he turned to her by the way and said to her, Come, let me come in unto you (for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law). And she said, What will you give me that you may come in unto me?

And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Arlemite, to receive the pledge from the womans hand; but he could not find her.

And it came to pass, when she travailed, that one of the babes put out his hand; and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.