Gen 37:31 So they took Joseph's tunic, and slaughtered a male goat and dipped the tunic in the blood;
Gen 37:32 and they sent the varicolored tunic and brought it to their father and said, "We found this; please examine it to see whether it is your son's tunic or not."
Gen 37:33 Then he examined it and said, "It is my son's tunic. A wild beast has devoured him; Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!"
Gen 37:34 So Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.
Gen 37:35 Then all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. And he said, "Surely I will go down to Sheol in mourning for my son." So his father wept for him.
Gen 37:36 Meanwhile, the Midianites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, Pharaoh's officer, the captain of the bodyguard.
Gen 38:1 And it came about at that time, that Judah departed from his brothers and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
Gen 38:2 Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; and he took her and went in to her.
Gen 38:3 So she conceived and bore a son and he named him Er.
Gen 38:4 Then she conceived again and bore a son and named him Onan.
Gen 38:5 She bore still another son and named him Shelah; and it was at Chezib that she bore him.
Gen 38:6 ¶ Now Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
Gen 38:7 But Er, Judah's firstborn, was evil in the sight of the LORD, so the LORD took his life.
Gen 38:8 Then Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform your duty as a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother."
Gen 38:9 Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother's wife, he wasted his seed on the ground in order not to give offspring to his brother.
Gen 38:10 But what he did was displeasing in the sight of the LORD; so He took his life also.
Gen 38:11 Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Remain a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up"; for he thought, "I am afraid that he too may die like his brothers." So Tamar went and lived in her father's house.
Gen 38:12 ¶ Now after a considerable time Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died; and when the time of mourning was ended, Judah went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
Gen 38:13 It was told to Tamar, "Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."
Gen 38:14 So she removed her widow's garments and covered herself with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gateway of Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she had not been given to him as a wife.