Gen 37:28 Then some Midianite traders passed by, so they pulled him up and lifted Joseph out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. Thus they brought Joseph into Egypt.
Gen 37:29 ¶ Now Reuben returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph was not in the pit; so he tore his garments.
Gen 37:30 He returned to his brothers and said, "The boy is not there; as for me, where am I to go?"
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 38:9 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.