Genesis 35:17   (Read all of Genesis 35)

And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her, "Don't despair, for you have another son."

Genesis 37:2   (Read all of Genesis 37)

This is the account of Jacob's family line. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.

Genesis 37:7   (Read all of Genesis 37)

We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it."

Genesis 37:8   (Read all of Genesis 37)

His brothers said to him, "Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?" And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.

Genesis 37:10   (Read all of Genesis 37)

When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, "What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?"

Genesis 37:13   (Read all of Genesis 37)

and Israel said to Joseph, "As you know, your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I am going to send you to them." "Very well," he replied.

Genesis 37:14   (Read all of Genesis 37)

So he said to him, "Go and see if all is well with your brothers and with the flocks, and bring word back to me." Then he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. When Joseph arrived at Shechem,

Genesis 37:15   (Read all of Genesis 37)

a man found him wandering around in the fields and asked him, "What are you looking for?"

Genesis 37:16   (Read all of Genesis 37)

He replied, "I'm looking for my brothers. Can you tell me where they are grazing their flocks?"

Genesis 37:32   (Read all of Genesis 37)

They took the ornate robe back to their father and said, "We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son's robe."

Genesis 38:8   (Read all of Genesis 38)

Then Judah said to Onan, "Sleep with your brother's wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother."

Genesis 38:11   (Read all of Genesis 38)

Judah then said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Live as a widow in your father's household until my son Shelah grows up." For he thought, "He may die too, just like his brothers." So Tamar went to live in her father's household.

Genesis 38:13   (Read all of Genesis 38)

When Tamar was told, "Your father-in-law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,"

Genesis 38:16   (Read all of Genesis 38)

Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, "Come now, let me sleep with you." "And what will you give me to sleep with you?" she asked.

Genesis 38:17   (Read all of Genesis 38)

"I'll send you a young goat from my flock," he said. "Will you give me something as a pledge until you send it?" she asked.

Genesis 38:18   (Read all of Genesis 38)

He said, "What pledge should I give you?" "Your seal and its cord, and the staff in your hand," she answered. So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.

Genesis 38:20   (Read all of Genesis 38)

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.

Genesis 38:23   (Read all of Genesis 38)

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."

Genesis 38:24   (Read all of Genesis 38)

About three months later Judah was told, "Your daughter-in-law Tamar is guilty of prostitution, and as a result she is now pregnant." Judah said, "Bring her out and have her burned to death!"

Genesis 38:25   (Read all of Genesis 38)

As she was being brought out, she sent a message to her father-in-law. "I am pregnant by the man who owns these," she said. And she added, "See if you recognize whose seal and cord and staff these are."

Genesis 38:29   (Read all of Genesis 38)

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.

Genesis 39:9   (Read all of Genesis 39)

No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?"

Genesis 39:17   (Read all of Genesis 39)

Then she told him this story: "That Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me.

Genesis 39:19   (Read all of Genesis 39)

When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, "This is how your slave treated me," he burned with anger.