37 (27) Come, and let us sell him to the Yishme᾽elim, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh.

(28) And his brothers hearkened to him. Then there passed by Midyanim, merchants; and they drew and lifted up Yosef out of the pit, and sold Yosef to the Yishme᾽elim for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Yosef into Miżrayim.

(29) And Re᾽uven returned to the pit; and, behold, Yosef was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.

(30) And he returned to his brothers, and said, The child is not; and I, where shall I go?

(31) And they took Yosef’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;

(32) and they sent the coat with long sleeves, and they brought it to their father; and said, This we have found: know now whether it be thy son’s coat or no.

(33) And he knew it, and said, It is my son’s coat; an evil beast has devoured him; Yosef is without doubt torn in pieces.

(34) And Ya῾aqov rent his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

(35) And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down to my son mourning into She᾽ol. Thus his father wept for him.

(36) And the Midyanim sold him to Miżrayim to Potifar, Par῾o’s chamberlain, a captain of the guard.

38 (1) And it came to pass at that time, that Yehuda went down from his brothers, and turned in to a certain ῾Adullamite, whose name was Ḥira.

(2) And Yehuda saw there a daughter of a certain Kena῾anite, whose name was Shu῾a; and he took her, and went in to her.

(3) And she conceived, and bore a son; and he called his name ῾Er.

(4) And she conceived again, and bore a son; and she called his name Onan.

(5) And she yet again conceived, and bore a son; and called his name Shela: and he was at Keziv, when she bore him.

(6) And Yehuda took a wife for ῾Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.

(7) And ῾Er, Yehuda’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord slew him.

(8) And Yehuda said to Onan, Go in to thy brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a brother in law, and raise up seed to thy brother.

(9) And Onan knew that the seed would not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in to his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.

(10) And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: So He slew him also.

(11) Then said Yehuda to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father’s home, till Shela my son be grown: for he said, Lest perchance he die also, as his brothers did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.

(12) And in process of time the daughter of Shu῾a Yehuda’s wife died; and when Yehuda was comforted, he went up to his sheep shearers to Timna, he and his friend Ḥira the ῾Adullamite.

(13) And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goes up to Timna to shear his sheep.

(14) And she put off her widow’s garments, and covered herself with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat by the entrance to ῾Enayim, which is by the way to Timna; for she saw that Shela was grown, and she was not given to him to wife.

(15) When Yehuda saw her, he thought her to be a harlot; because she had covered her face.

(16) And he turned to her by the way, and said, Come now, I pray thee, let me come in to thee (for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayst come in to me?