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Genesis 36

    ²Esau took his wives from the women of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah daughter of Anah, the son of Zibeon the Hivite,

    ³And Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebaioth.

    ⁴Adah bore to Esau, Eliphaz; Basemath bore Reuel;

    ⁵And Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau born to him in Canaan.

    ⁶Now Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, his cattle, all his beasts, and all his possessions which he had obtained in the land of Canaan, and he went into a land away from his brother Jacob.

    ⁷For their great flocks and herds and possessions [which they had collected] made it impossible for them to dwell together; the land in which they were strangers could not support them because of their livestock.

    ⁸So Esau dwelt in the hill country of Seir; Esau is Edom.

    ⁹And this is the history of the descendants of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir.

    ¹⁰These are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz, the son of Adah, Esau's wife, and Reuel, the son of Basemath, Esau's wife.

    ¹¹And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.

    ¹²And Timna was a concubine of Eliphaz, Esau's son; and she bore Amalek to Eliphaz. These are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.

    ¹³These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These are the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.

    ¹⁴And these are the sons of Oholibamah daughter of Anah, the son of Zibeon, Esau's wife. She bore to Esau: Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.

    ¹⁵These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: The sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: Chiefs Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,

    ¹⁶Korah, Gatam, and Amalek. These are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; they are the sons of Adah.

    ¹⁷These are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: Chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, Mizzah. These are the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom; they are the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.

    ¹⁸These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife: Chiefs Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the chiefs born of Oholibamah daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.

    ¹⁹These are the sons of Esau, that is, Edom, and these are their chiefs.

    ²⁰These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

    ²¹Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs of the ^[a]Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom.

    ²²The sons of Lotan are Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's sister is Timna.

    ²³The sons of Shobal are these: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.

    ²⁴These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness as he pastured the donkeys of Zibeon his father.

    ²⁵The children of Anah are these: Dishon and Oholibamah daughter of Anah [Esau's wife].

    ²⁶These are the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.

    ²⁷Ezer's sons are these: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.

    ²⁸The sons of Dishan are these: Uz and Aran.

    ²⁹The Horite chiefs are these: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

    ³⁰Dishon, Ezer, Dishan. These are the Horite chiefs, according to their clans, in the land of Seir.

    ³¹And these are the kings who reigned in Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites:

    ³²Bela son of Beor reigned in Edom. And the name of his city was Dinhabah.

    ³³Now Bela died, and Jobab son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.

    ³⁴Then Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead.

    ³⁵And Husham died, and Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his stead. The name of his [enclosed] city was Avith.

    ³⁶Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah succeeded him.

    ³⁷Then Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth on the river [Euphrates] reigned in his stead.

    ³⁸And Shaul died, and Baal-hanan son of Achbor reigned in his stead.

    ³⁹Baal-hanan son of Achbor died, and then Hadar reigned. His [enclosed] city was Pau; his wife's name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

    ⁴⁰And these are the names of the chiefs of Esau, according to their families and places of residence, by their names: Chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,

    ⁴¹Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon,

    ⁴²Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,

    ⁴³Magdiel, and Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom [that is, of Esau the father of the Edomites], according to their dwelling places in their land.

Genesis 37

    ²This is the history of the descendants of Jacob and this is Jacob's line. Joseph, when he was seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's [secondary] wives; and Joseph brought to his father a bad report of them.

    ³Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a [distinctive] long tunic with sleeves.

    ⁴But when his brothers saw that their father loved [Joseph] more than all of his brothers, they hated him and could not say, Peace [in friendly greeting] to him or speak peaceably to him.

    ⁵Now Joseph had a dream and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him still more.

    ⁶And he said to them, Listen now and hear, I pray you, this dream that I have dreamed:

    ⁷We [brothers] were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright, and behold, your sheaves stood round about my sheaf and bowed down!

    ⁸His brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us? Or are you going to have us as your subjects and dominate us? And they hated him all the more for his dreams and for what he said.

    ⁹But Joseph dreamed yet another dream and told it to his brothers [also]. He said, See here, I have dreamed again, and behold, [this time not only] eleven stars [but also] the sun and the moon bowed down and did reverence to me!

    ¹⁰And he told it to his father [as well as] his brethren. But his father rebuked him and said to him, What is the meaning of this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers actually come to bow down ourselves to the earth and do homage to you?

    ¹¹Joseph's brothers envied him and were jealous of him, but his father observed the saying and pondered over it.

    ¹²Joseph's brothers went to shepherd and feed their father's flock near Shechem.

    ¹³[One day] Israel said to Joseph, Do not your brothers shepherd my flock at Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them. And he said, Here I am.

    ¹⁴And [Jacob] said to him, Go, I pray you, see whether everything is all right with your brothers and with the flock; then come back and bring me word. So he sent him out of the Hebron Valley, and he came to Shechem.

    ¹⁵And a certain man found him, and behold, he had lost his way and was wandering in the open country. The man asked him, What are you trying to find?

    ¹⁶And he said, I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, I pray you, where they are pasturing our flocks.

    ¹⁷But the man said, [They were here, but] they have gone. I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.

    ¹⁸And when they saw him far off, even before he came near to them, they conspired to kill him.

    ¹⁹And they said one to another, See, here comes this dreamer and master of dreams.

    ²⁰So come on now, let us kill him and throw his body into some pit; then we will say [to our father], Some wild and ferocious animal has devoured him; and we shall see what will become of his dreams!

    ²¹Now Reuben heard it and he delivered him out of their hands by saying, Let us not kill him.

    ²²And Reuben said to them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit or well that is out here in the wilderness and lay no hand on him. He was trying to get Joseph out of their hands in order to rescue him and deliver him again to his father.

    ²³When Joseph had come to his brothers, they stripped him of his [distinctive] long garment which he was wearing;

    ²⁴Then they took him and cast him into the [well-like] pit which was empty; there was no water in it.

    ²⁵Then they sat down to eat their lunch. When they looked up, behold, they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites [mixed Arabians] coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing gum [of the styrax tree], balm (balsam), and myrrh or ladanum, going on their way to carry them down to Egypt.

    ²⁶And Judah said to his brothers, What do we gain if we slay our brother and conceal his blood?

    ²⁷Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites [and Midianites, these mixed Arabians who are approaching], and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brothers consented.

    ²⁸Then as the Midianite [and Ishmaelite] merchants were passing by, the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the well. And they sold him for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took Joseph [captive] into Egypt.

    ²⁹Then Reuben [who had not been there when the brothers plotted to sell the lad] returned to the pit; and behold, Joseph was not in the pit, and he rent his clothes.

    ³⁰He rejoined his brothers and said, The boy is not there! And I, where shall I go [to hide from my father]?

    ³¹Then they took Joseph's [distinctive] long garment, killed a young goat, and dipped the garment in the blood;

    ³²And they sent the garment to their father, saying, We have found this! Examine and decide whether it is your son's tunic or not.

    ³³He said, My son's long garment! An evil [wild] beast has devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.

    ³⁴And Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned many days for his son.

    ³⁵And all his sons and daughters attempted to console him, but he refused to be comforted and said, I will go down to Sheol (the place of the dead) to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.

    ³⁶And the Midianites [and Ishmaelites] sold [Joseph] in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and the captain and chief executioner of the [royal] guard.

Genesis 38

    ²There Judah saw and met a daughter of Shuah, a Canaanite; he took her as wife and lived with her.

    ³And she became pregnant and bore a son, and he called him Er.

    ⁴And she conceived again and bore a son and named him Onan.

    ⁵Again she conceived and bore a son and named him Shelah. [They were living] at Chezib when she bore him.

    ⁶Now Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn; her name was Tamar.

    ⁷And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord slew him.

    ⁸Then Judah told Onan, Marry your brother's widow; live with her and raise offspring for your brother.

    ⁹But Onan knew that the family would not be his, so when he cohabited with his brother's widow, he prevented conception, lest he should raise up a child for his brother.

    ¹⁰And the thing which he did displeased the Lord; therefore He slew him also.

    ¹¹Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow at your father's house till Shelah my [youngest] son is grown; for he thought, Lest perhaps [if Shelah should marry her] he would die also, as his brothers did. So Tamar went and lived in her father's house.

    ¹²But later Judah's wife, the daughter of Shuah, died; and when Judah was comforted, he went up to his sheepshearers at Timnath with his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

    ¹³Then it was told Tamar, Listen, your father-in-law is going up to Timnath to shear his sheep.

    ¹⁴So she put off her widow's garments and covered herself with a veil, wrapped herself up [in disguise], and sat in the entrance of Enaim, which is by the road to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown and she was not given to him as his wife.

    ¹⁵When Judah saw her, he thought she was a harlot or devoted prostitute [under a vow to her goddess], for she had covered her face [as such women did].

    ¹⁶He turned to her by the road and said, Come, let me have intercourse with you; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What will you give me that you may have intercourse with me?

    ¹⁷He answered, I will send you a kid from the flock. And she said, Will you give me a pledge (deposit) until you send it?

    ¹⁸And he said, What pledge shall I give you? She said, Your signet [seal], your [signet] cord, and your staff that is in your hand. And he gave them to her and came in to her, and she became pregnant by him.

    ¹⁹And she arose and went away and laid aside her veil and put on the garments of her widowhood.

    ²⁰And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand; but he was unable to find her.

    ²¹He asked the men of that place, Where is the harlot or cult prostitute who was openly by the roadside? They said, There was no harlot or temple prostitute here.

    ²²So he returned to Judah and said, I cannot find her; and also the local men said, There was no harlot or temple prostitute around here.

    ²³And Judah said, Let her keep [the pledge articles] for herself, lest we be made ashamed. I sent this kid, but you have not found her.

    ²⁴But about three months later Judah was told, Tamar your daughter-in-law has played the harlot, and also she is with child by her lewdness. And Judah said, Bring her forth and let her be burned!

    ²⁵When she was brought forth, she [took the things he had given her in pledge and] sent [them] to her father-in-law, saying, I am with child by the man to whom these articles belong. Then she added, Make out clearly, I pray you, to whom these belong, the signet [seal], [signet] cord, and staff.

    ²⁶And Judah acknowledged them and said, She has been more righteous and just than I, because I did not give her to Shelah my son. And he did not cohabit with her again.

    ²⁷Now when the time came for her to be delivered, behold, there were twins in her womb.

    ²⁸And when she was in labor, one baby put out his hand; and the midwife took his hand and bound upon it a scarlet thread, saying, This baby was born first.

    ²⁹But he drew back his hand, and behold, his brother was born first. And she said, What a breaking forth you have made for yourself! Therefore his name was called Perez [breaking forth].^(A)

    ³⁰And afterward his brother who had the scarlet thread on his hand was born and was named Zerah [scarlet].

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²¹Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child; and children will take a stand against their parents and will have them put to death.

    ²²And you will be hated by all for My name's sake, but he who perseveres and endures to the end will be saved [^[a]from spiritual disease and death in the world to come].

    ²³When they persecute you in one town [that is, pursue you in a manner that would injure you and cause you to suffer because of your belief], flee to another town; for truly I tell you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before ^[b]the Son of Man comes.

    ²⁴A disciple is not above his teacher, nor is a servant or slave above his master.

    ²⁵It is sufficient for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant or slave like his master. If they have called the Master of the house Beelzebub [^[c]master of the dwelling], how much more will they speak evil of those of His household. [II Kings 1:2.]

    ²⁶So have no fear of them; for nothing is concealed that will not be revealed, or kept secret that will not become known.

    ²⁷What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim upon the housetops.

    ²⁸And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; but rather be afraid of Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell (Gehenna).

    ²⁹Are not two ^[d]little sparrows sold for a penny? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's leave (consent) and notice.

    ³⁰But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

    ³¹Fear not, then; you are of more value than many sparrows.

    ³²Therefore, everyone who acknowledges Me before men and confesses Me [^[e]out of a state of oneness with Me], I will also acknowledge him before My Father Who is in heaven and ^[f]confess [that I am abiding in] him.

    ³³But whoever denies and disowns Me before men, I also will deny and disown him before My Father Who is in heaven.

    ³⁴Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

    ³⁵For I have come to part asunder a man from his father, and a daughter from her mother, and a ^[g]newly married wife from her mother-in-law--

    ³⁶And a man's foes will be they of his own household.^(A)

    ³⁷He who loves [and ^[h]takes more pleasure in] father or mother more than [in] Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves [and takes more pleasure in] son or daughter more than [in] Me is not worthy of Me;

    ³⁸And he who does not take up his cross and follow Me [^[i]cleave steadfastly to Me, conforming wholly to My example in living and, if need be, in dying also] is not worthy of Me.

    ³⁹Whoever finds his [^[j]lower] life will lose it [the higher life], and whoever loses his [lower] life on My account will find it [the higher life].

    ⁴⁰He who receives and welcomes and accepts you receives and welcomes and accepts Me, and he who receives and welcomes and accepts Me receives and welcomes and accepts Him Who sent Me.

    ⁴¹He who receives and welcomes and accepts a prophet because he is a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward, and he who receives and welcomes and accepts a righteous man because he is a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.

    ⁴²And whoever gives to one of these little ones [in rank or influence] even a cup of cold water because he is My disciple, surely I declare to you, he shall not lose his reward.