Study Desk

God said to him, "Your name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel." So he named him Israel.

As she breathed her last—for she was dying—she named her son Ben-Oni. But his father named him Benjamin.

His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.

"Don't shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern here in the wilderness, but don't lay a hand on him." Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father.

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

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

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

Meanwhile Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite in order to get his pledge back from the woman, but he did not find her.

Then Judah said, "Let her keep what she has, or we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you didn't find her."

But when he drew back his hand, his brother came out, and she said, "So this is how you have broken out!" And he was named Perez.

But he refused. "With me in charge," he told her, "my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care.

She caught him by his cloak and said, "Come to bed with me!" But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house.

she called her household servants. "Look," she said to them, "this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us! He came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed.

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

Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined. But while Joseph was there in the prison,

"We both had dreams," they answered, "but there is no one to interpret them." Then Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams."

But when all goes well with you, remember me and show me kindness; mention me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison.

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."

but he impaled the chief baker, just as Joseph had said to them in his interpretation.