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His brethren answered: Shalt thou be our king? or shall we be subject to thy dominion? Therefore this matter of his dreams and words ministered nourishment to their envy and hatred.

His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered the thing with himself.

Juda, therefore, said to Onan his son: Go in to thy brother’s wife and marry her, that thou mayst raise seed to thy brother.

And therefore the Lord slew him, because he did a detestable thing:

Juda said: What wilt thou have for a pledge? She answered: Thy ring and bracelet, and the staff which thou holdest in thy hand. The woman therefore at one copulation conceived.

But he drawing back his hand, the other came forth: and the woman said: Why is the partition divided for thee? and therefore called his name Phares.

For a proof therefore of her fidelity, she kept the garment, and shewed it to her husband when he returned home:

Now therefore let the king provide a wise and industrious man, and make him ruler over the land of Egypt:

He said therefore to Joseph: Seeing God hath shewn thee all that thou hast said, can I find one wiser and one like unto thee?

And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this affliction come upon us.

If therefore thou wilt send him with us, we will set out together, and will buy necessaries for thee.

Therefore when we were gone up to thy servant our father, we told him all that my lord had said.

Therefore, if I shall go to thy servant, our father, and the boy be wanting, (whereas his life dependeth upon the life of him,)

Therefore I, thy servant, will stay instead of the boy in the service of my lord, and let the boy go up with his brethren.

The king therefore said to Joseph: Thy father and thy brethren are come to thee.

Why therefore shall we die before thy eyes? we will be thine, both we and our lands: buy us to be the king’s servants, and give us seed, lest for want of tillers the land be turned into a wilderness.

Except the land of the priests, which had been given them by the king: to whom also a certain allowance of food was given out of the public stores, and therefore they were not forced to sell their possessions.

And when the inhabitants of Chanaan saw this, they said: This is a great mourning to the Egyptians. And therefore the name of that place was called, The mourning of Egypt.

Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens: and they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom, and Ramesses.

Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied and grew exceedingly strong.