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Judah and Tamar • GENESIS 38:1-30
About this time, Judah left home and moved to
Adullam, where he stayed with a man named
Hirah. 2 There he saw a Canaanite woman, the
daughter of Shua, and he married her. When he
slept with her, 3 she became pregnant and gave
birth to a son, and he named the boy Er. 4 Then
she became pregnant again and gave birth to
another son, and she named him Onan. 5And
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37:26 Hebrew cover his blood. 37:28 Hebrew 20 [shekels], about
8 ounces or 228 grams in weight. 37:35 Hebrew go down to Sheol.
37:36 Hebrew the Medanites. The relationship between the Midianites
and Medanites is unclear; compare 37:28. See also 25:2.
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18 When Joseph’s brothers saw him coming,
they recognized him in the distance. As he approached, they made plans to kill him. 19 “Here
comes the dreamer!” they said. 20 “Come on, let’s
kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns. We can tell our father, ‘A wild animal has
eaten him.’ Then we’ll see what becomes of his
dreams!”
21 But when Reu ben heard of their scheme,
he came to Joseph’s rescue. “Let’s not kill him,”
he said. 22 “Why should we shed any blood? Let’s
just throw him into this empty cistern here in
the wilderness. Then he’ll die without our laying a hand on him.” Reuben was secretly planning to rescue Joseph and return him to his
father.
23 So when Joseph arrived, his brothers ripped
off the beautiful robe he was wearing. 24 Then
they grabbed him and threw him into the
CHURCH
Joseph Sold into Slavery • GENESIS 37:18-36
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cistern. Now the cistern was empty; there was
no water in it. 25 Then, just as they were sitting
down to eat, they looked up and saw a caravan
of camels in the distance coming toward them.
It was a group of Ishmaelite traders taking a
load of gum, balm, and aromatic resin from Gilead down to Egypt.
26 Judah said to his brothers, “What will we
gain by killing our brother? We’d have to cover
up the crime.* 27 Instead of hurting him, let’s sell
him to those Ishmaelite traders. After all, he is
our brother—our own flesh and blood!” And
his brothers agreed. 28 So when the Ishmaelites,
who were Midianite traders, came by, Joseph’s
brothers pulled him out of the cistern and sold
him to them for twenty pieces* of silver. And the
traders took him to Egypt.
29 Some time later, Reuben returned to get
Joseph out of the cistern. When he discovered
that Joseph was missing, he tore his clothes in
grief. 30 Then he went back to his brothers and
lamented, “The boy is gone! What will I do now?”
31 Then the brothers killed a young goat and
dipped Joseph’s robe in its blood. 32 They sent
the beautiful robe to their father with this message: “Look at what we found. Doesn’t this robe
belong to your son?”
33 Their father recognized it immediately.
“Yes,” he said, “it is my son’s robe. A wild animal
must have eaten him. Joseph has clearly been
torn to pieces!” 34 Then Jacob tore his clothes
and dressed himself in burlap. He mourned
deeply for his son for a long time. 35 His family
all tried to comfort him, but he refused to be
comforted. “I will go to my grave* mourning
for my son,” he would say, and then he would
weep.
36 Meanwhile, the Midianite traders* arrived
in Egypt, where they sold Joseph to Potiphar, an
officer of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. Potiphar
was captain of the palace guard.
GOSPEL
he told his brothers about it. “Listen, I have had
another dream,” he said. “The sun, moon, and
eleven stars bowed low before me!”
10 This time he told the dream to his father as
well as to his brothers, but his father scolded
him. “What kind of dream is that?” he asked.
“Will your mother and I and your brothers
actually come and bow to the ground before
you?” 11 But while his brothers were jealous of
Joseph, his father wondered what the dreams
meant.
12 Soon after this, Joseph’s brothers went to
pasture their father’s flocks at Shechem. 13 When
they had been gone for some time, Jacob said to
Joseph, “Your brothers are pasturing the sheep
at Shechem. Get ready, and I will send you to
them.”
“I’m ready to go,” Joseph replied.
14 “Go and see how your brothers and the
flocks are getting along,” Jacob said. “Then come
back and bring me a report.” So Jacob sent him
on his way, and Joseph traveled to Shechem
from their home in the valley of Hebron.
15 When he arrived there, a man from the area
noticed him wandering around the countryside.
“What are you looking for?” he asked.
16 “I’m looking for my brothers,” Joseph replied. “Do you know where they are pasturing
their sheep?”
17 “Yes,” the man told him. “They have moved
on from here, but I heard them say, ‘Let’s go on
to Dothan.’” So Joseph followed his brothers to
Dothan and found them there.
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