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37 Now, Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.
2 These are the generations of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he kept sheep with his brothers. And the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah (his father’s wives). And Joseph brought an evil report of them to his father.
3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he begat him in his old age; and he made him a coat of many colors.
4 So, when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, then they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.
5 And Joseph dreamed a dream and told his brothers, who hated him so much the more.
6 For he said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed!
7 “Behold now, we were binding sheaves in the midst of the field. And lo, my sheaf arose and also stood upright. And behold, your sheaves surrounded it, and did reverence to my sheaf.”
8 Then his brothers said to him, “What!? Shall you reign over us, and rule us? Or, shall you have complete dominion over us?” And they hated him so much the more, for his dreams and for his words.
9 Again, he dreamed another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have had one more dream. And behold, the Sun and the Moon and eleven stars did reverence to me.”
10 Then, he told it to his father and to his brothers. And his father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this, your dream which you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come and fall on the ground before you?”
11 And his brothers envied him. But his father noted the saying.
12 Then, his brothers went to keep their father’s sheep in Shechem.
13 And Israel said to Joseph, “Do not your brothers pasture their flock in Shechem? Come and I will send you to them.”
14 And he answered him, “I am here.” Then he said to him, “Go now; see whether all is well with your brothers and how the flocks prosper. And report back.” So, he sent him from the valley of Hebron; and he came to Shechem.
15 Then, a man found him. For lo, he was wandering in the field. And the man asked him, saying, “What do you seek?”
16 And he answered, “I seek my brothers. Please, tell me where they are pasturing.”
17 And the man said, “They have left here. For I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” Then Joseph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan.
18 And when they saw him from far away, even before he came near, they conspired against him, to kill him.
19 For they said, one to another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.
20 “Come now, therefore, and let us kill him and cast him into some pit. And we will say, ‘A wicked beast has devoured him.’ Then we shall see what will come of his dreams.”
21 But when Reuben heard that, he delivered him out of their hands, and said, “Let us not kill him.”
22 And Reuben said to them, “Do not shed blood. Cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness; and lay no hand upon him.” (so that he might deliver him out of their hand and restore him to his father)
23 Now, when Joseph had come to his brothers, they stripped Joseph out of his coat, his parti-colored coat that was upon him.
24 And they took him and cast him into a pit; and the pit was empty, without water in it.
25 Then they sat down to eat bread. And they lifted up their eyes and looked. And behold, there came a company of Ishmaelites from Gilead, their camels laden with spicery and balm and myrrh, who were going to carry it down into Egypt.
26 Then Judah said to his brothers, “What does it profit us if we kill our brother yet keep his blood secret?
27 “Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites; and do not let our hands be upon him. For he is our brother, our flesh.” And his brothers obeyed.
28 Then, the Midianites’ merchant men passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit. And they sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver, who brought Joseph into Egypt.
29 Afterward, Reuben returned to the pit; and behold, Joseph was not in the pit. Then he tore his clothes
30 and returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more. And I? Where shall I go?”
31 And they took Joseph’s coat and killed a kid from the goats and dipped the coat in the blood.
32 So they sent that multi-colored coat; and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. See, now, whether it be your son’s coat or not.”
33 Then he knew it, and said, “It is my son’s coat. A wicked beast has devoured him. Joseph is surely torn in pieces.”
34 And Jacob tore his clothes and put sackcloth around his waist and mourned for his son a long time.
35 Then all his sons and his daughters arose up to comfort him. But he would not be comforted, and said, “Surely I will go down into the grave mourning my son.” So, his father wept for him.
36 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt, to Potiphar, a Eunuch of Pharaoh’s, and his chief steward.
38 And at that time, Judah went down from his brothers and visited a man called Hirah, an Adullamite.
2 And there Judah saw a daughter of a man called Shua, a Canaanite. And he took her and went into her.
3 So 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 Moreover, she bore yet another son whom she called Shelah. And Judah was at Chezib when she bore him.
6 Then Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.
7 Now, Er, the firstborn of Judah, was wicked in the sight of the LORD. Therefore, the LORD killed him.
8 And Judah said to Onan, “Go into your brother’s wife and do the office of a kinsman to her; and raise up seed to your brother.”
9 And Onan knew that the seed would not be his. Therefore, when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.
10 And it was wicked in the eyes of the LORD, that which he did. Therefore He killed him also.
11 Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until Shelah, my son, grows up (for he thought, “Lest he die, just as his brothers.”) So, Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.
12 And in process of time the daughter of Shua, Judah’s wife, also died. Then Judah, when he had finished mourning, went up to his sheepshearers, to Timnah (he and his neighbor, Hirah the Adullamite).
13 And it was told to Tamar, saying, “Behold, your father-in-law goes up to Timnath, to shear his sheep.
14 Then she took off her widow’s garments and covered herself with a veil and wrapped herself and sat down in Pethah-enam (which is on the way to Timnah) because she saw that Shelah was grown and she was not given to him as wife.
15 When Judah saw her, he judged her to be a whore, for she had covered her face.
16 And he made his way towards her, and said, “Please, come let me lie with you.” For he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she answered, “What will you give me, to lie with me?”
17 Then he said, “I will send you a kid from the goats of the flock.” And she said, “If you will give me a pledge until you send it.”
18 Then he said, “What is the pledge that I shall give you?” And she answered, “Your signet and your cloak and your staff that is in your hand.” So, he gave it to her and lay with her; and she was with child by him.
19 Then she rose and went and took off her veil and put on her widow’s raiment.
20 Afterward, Judah sent a kid from the goats by the hand of his neighbor, the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman’s hand. But he did not find her.
21 Then he asked the men of the place, saying, “Where is the whore who sat in Enaim, by the wayside?” And they answered, “There was no whore there.”
22 Therefore, he came back to Judah, and said, “I cannot find her. And the men of the place also said, ‘There was no whore there.’”
23 Then Judah said, “Let her take them for herself, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this kid, and you have not found her.”
24 Now, after three months, one told Judah, saying, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the whore; and lo, with playing the whore, she is great with child.” Then Judah said, “Bring her forth and let her be burnt.”
25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “By the man to whom these things pertain, am I with child.” And she also said, “Please determine who’s these are: the seal and the cloak and the staff.”
26 Then Judah knew, and said, “She is more righteous than me. For she has done it because I did not give her to Shelah, my son.” So, he lay with her no more.
27 Now, when the time had come that she should give birth, behold, there were twins in her womb.
28 And when she was in labor, one put out his hand. And the midwife took and bound a red thread around his hand, saying, “This has come out first.”
29 But when he drew his hand back again, lo, his brother came out; and the midwife said, “How have you broken through? A breach is upon you!” And his name was called “Perez”.
30 And afterward, his brother came out (who had the red thread around his hand); and his name was called “Zerah”.
22 Then one possessed with a demon was brought to Him, who was both blind and mute. And He healed him, so that he who was blind and mute both spoke and saw.
23 And all the people were amazed, and said, “Is not this that Son of David?”
24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This Man does not cast out demons but by Beelzebub the Prince of Demons.
25 But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to naught. And every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.
26 “So, if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then shall his kingdom endure?
27 “Also, if I cast out demons through Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? They shall therefore be your judges.
28 “But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the Kingdom of God has come to you.
29 “Or else how can anyone enter into a strong man’s house and spoil his goods, unless he first binds the strong man, and then spoil his house?
30 “The one who is not with Me, is against Me. And the one who does not gather with Me, scatters.
31 “Therefore I say to you, “Every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven man. But the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven man.
32 And whoever shall speak a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him. But whoever shall speak against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in the world to come.
33 “Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or else make the tree evil, and its fruit evil. For the tree is known by the fruit.
34 “O generations of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
35 “A good man brings forth good things out of the good treasure of his heart. And an evil man, out of an evil treasure, brings forth evil things.
36 “But I say to you, that of every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof on the Day of Judgment.
37 “For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned.”
38 Then answered some of the scribes and Pharisees, saying, “Master, we wish to see a sign from You.”
39 But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign. But no sign shall be given to it, except the sign of the Prophet Jonah.
40 “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the Earth.
41 “The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation and condemn it. For they repented at the preaching of Jonah. And behold, a Greater than Jonah is here.
42 “The Queen of the South shall rise in judgment with this generation and shall condemn it. For she came from the utmost parts of the Earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold, a Greater than Solomon is here.
43 “Now when the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, it walks throughout dry places, seeking rest, and finds none.
44 “Then it says, ‘I will return to my house, from where I came.’ And when he has come, he finds it empty, swept and garnished.
45 “Then it goes, and takes with it seven other spirits, worse than itself. And they enter in, and dwell there. And the end of that man is worse than the beginning. Even so shall it be with this wicked generation.”
16 Preserve me, O God. For in You do I trust.
2 O my soul, you have said to the LORD, “You are my LORD. My goodness is not, but for You.”
3 To the saints who are on the Earth, and to the excellent, all my delight is in them.
4 The sorrows of those who offer to another god shall be multiplied. Their offerings of blood I will not offer; nor make mention of their names with my lips.
5 The LORD is the portion of my inheritance, and of my cup. You shall maintain my lot.
6 The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Indeed, I have a fair heritage.
7 I will praise the LORD Who has given me counsel. My core also teaches me in the nights.
8 I have set the LORD always before me. For He is at my right hand. Therefore, I shall not slide.
9 Therefore, my heart is glad. And my tongue rejoices. My flesh, also, rests in hope.
10 For You will not leave my soul in the grave. Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.
11 You will show me the path of life. In Your presence is the fullness of joy. And at Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore. The prayer of David.
27 Do not withhold the good from the owners thereof, though there be power in your hand to do it.
28 Do not say to your neighbor, “Go and come again, and tomorrow I will give you,” if you have it now.
29 Intend no hurt against your neighbor, seeing he dwells by you without fear.
30 Do not strive with someone without cause (when he has done you no harm).
31 Do not be envious of the wicked man, nor choose any of his ways.
32 For the crooked is abomination to the LORD. But His secret is with the righteous.
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