Genesis 35.16.Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty. 17. And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her, “Don’t despair, for you have another son.” 18. As she breathed her last—for she was dying—she named her son Ben-Oni. But his father named him Benjamin. 19. So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). 20. Over her tomb Jacob set up a pillar, and to this day that pillar marks Rachel’s tomb.
Genesis 37.1.Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan. 2. 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. 3. Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate[a] robe for him.
Genesis 37.11. His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind. 19. “Here comes that dreamer!” they said to each other. 20. “Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we’ll see what comes of his dreams.” 21. When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. “Let’s not take his life,” he said. 22. “Don’t shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern here in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father.
Genesis 37.23. So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe - the ornate robe he was wearing - 24. and they took him and threw him into the cistern. The cistern was empty; there was no water in it. 25. As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm and myrrh, and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt.
Genesis 37.26. Judah said to his brothers, “What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood? 27. Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him; after all, he is our brother, our own flesh and blood.” His brothers agreed. 28. So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels[b] of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.
Genesis 38.1. At that time, Judah left his brothers and went down to stay with a man of Adullam named Hirah. 2. There Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. He married her and made love to her; 3. she became pregnant and gave birth to a son, who was named Er. 4. She conceived again and gave birth to a son and named him Onan. 5. She gave birth to still another son and named him Shelah. It was at Kezib that she gave birth to him.
Genesis 38. 6. Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. 7. But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death.
Genesis 38. 8. 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.” 9. But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother. 10. What he did was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death also.
Genesis 38. 13. When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,” 14. she took off her widow’s clothes, covered herself with a veil to disguise herself, and then sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had now grown up, she had not been given to him as his wife.
Genesis 38.15. When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face. 16. 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. 17. “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.18. 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. 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. 21. He asked the men who lived there, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?”“There hasn’t been any shrine prostitute here,” they said. 22. So he went back to Judah and said, “I didn’t find her. Besides, the men who lived there said, ‘There hasn’t been any shrine prostitute here.’”