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So Jacob and all who were with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

Deborah, the one who had nursed and raised Rebekah, died and was buried under the oak south of Bethel. So Jacob named it Oak of Weeping.

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

So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

So Esau (that is, Edom) lived in the mountains of Seir.

"Are you really going to reign over us?" his brothers asked him. "Are you really going to rule us?" So they hated him even more because of his dream and what he had said.

Then Israel said to him, "Go and see how your brothers and the flocks are doing, and bring word back to me." So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he went to Shechem.

"They've moved on from here," the man said. "I heard them say, ‘Let's go to Dothan.'" So Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan.

So they took Joseph's robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.

But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, so whenever he slept with his brother's wife, he released his semen 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 him to death also.

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Remain a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up." For he thought, "He might die too, like his brothers." So Tamar went to live in her father's house.

So she took off her widow's clothes, veiled her face, covered herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.

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

So the Adullamite returned to Judah, saying, "I couldn't find her, and furthermore, the men of the place said, ‘There has been no cult prostitute here.'"

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

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 the household servants. "Look," she said to them, "my husband brought a Hebrew man to make fools of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, and I screamed as loud as I could.

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

So he asked Pharaoh's officers who were in custody with him in his master's house, "Why do you look so sad today?"