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And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name." So he called his name Israel.

And as her soul was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.

But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.

But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?"

And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.

But when Reuben heard it, he rescued him out of their hands, saying, "Let us not take his life."

And Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood; throw him into this pit here in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him"—that he might rescue him out of their hand to restore him to his father.

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, "No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning." Thus his father wept for him.

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

But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. So whenever he went in to his brother's wife he would waste the semen on the ground, so as not to give offspring to his brother.

But as he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out. And she said, "What a breach you have made for yourself!" Therefore his name was called Perez.

So he left all that he had in Joseph's charge, and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.

But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge.

But one day, when he went into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house was there in the house,

she caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me." But he left his garment in her hand and fled and got out of the house.

But as soon as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment beside me and fled out of the house."

But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

and in the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating it out of the basket on my head."

But he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.

Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.