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Genesis 36,37,38
Esau's Family
1 These are the family records(a) of Esau (that is, Edom(b)). 2 Esau took his wives from the Canaanite women: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite,(c) Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter[a] of Zibeon the Hivite, 3 and Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.(d) 4 Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath bore Reuel, 5 and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These were Esau's sons, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.
6 Esau took his wives, sons, daughters, and all the people of his household, as well as his herds, all his livestock, and all the property he had acquired in Canaan; he went to a land away from his brother Jacob. 7 For their possessions were too many for them to live together,(e) and because of their herds, the land where they stayed could not support them.(f) 8 So Esau (that is, Edom) lived in the mountains of Seir.(g)
9 These are the family records of Esau, father of the Edomites in the mountains of Seir.
10 These are the names of Esau's sons:(h)
Eliphaz son of Esau's wife Adah,
and Reuel son of Esau's wife Basemath.
11 The sons of Eliphaz were
Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.
12 Timna, a concubine of Esau's son Eliphaz,
bore Amalek to Eliphaz.
These were the sons of Esau's wife Adah.
13 These are Reuel's sons:
Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
These were the sons of Esau's wife Basemath.
14 These are the sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah
daughter of Anah and granddaughter[b] of Zibeon:
She bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah to Edom.
15 These are the chiefs of Esau's sons:
the sons of Eliphaz, Esau's firstborn:
Chiefs Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,
16 Korah,[c] Gatam, and Amalek.
These are the chiefs of Eliphaz
in the land of Edom.
These are the sons of Adah.
17 These are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son:
Chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
These are the chiefs of Reuel
in the land of Edom.
These are the sons of Esau's wife Basemath.
18 These are the sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah:
Chiefs Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
These are the chiefs of Esau's wife Oholibamah
daughter of Anah.
19 These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom),
and these are their chiefs.
Seir's Family
20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite,(i)
the inhabitants of the land:
Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
21 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
These are the chiefs of the Horites,
the sons of Seir, in the land of Edom.
22 The sons of Lotan were Hori and Heman.
Timna was Lotan's sister.
23 These are Shobal's sons:
Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
24 These are Zibeon's sons: Aiah and Anah.
This was the Anah who found the hot springs[d] in the wilderness
while he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.
25 These are the children of Anah:
Dishon and Oholibamah daughter of Anah.
26 These are Dishon's sons:
Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.
27 These are Ezer's sons:
Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.
28 These are Dishan's sons: Uz and Aran.
29 These are the chiefs of the Horites:
Chiefs Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
30 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
These are the chiefs of the Horites,
according to their divisions, in the land of Seir.
Rulers of Edom
31 These are the kings who ruled in the land of Edom(j)
before any king ruled over the Israelites:
32 Bela son of Beor ruled in Edom;
the name of his city was Dinhabah.
33 When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah became king in his place.
34 When Jobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites became king in his place.
35 When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad became king in his place.
He defeated Midian in the field of Moab;
the name of his city was Avith.
36 When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah became king in his place.
37 When Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth on the Euphrates River became king in his place.
38 When Shaul died, Baal-hanan son of Achbor became king in his place.
39 When Baal-hanan son of Achbor died, Hadar[e] became king in his place.
His city was Pau, and his wife's name was Mehetabel
daughter of Matred daughter of Me-zahab.
40 These are the names of Esau's chiefs,
according to their families and their localities,
by their names:
Chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,
41 Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon,
42 Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,
43 Magdiel, and Iram.
These are Edom's chiefs,
according to their settlements in the land they possessed.
Esau[f] was father of the Edomites.
Joseph's Dreams
1 Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.(a) 2 These are the family records of Jacob.
At 17 years of age, Joseph tended sheep with his brothers. The young man was working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives,(b) and he brought a bad report about them to their father.(c)
3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons because Joseph was a son born to him in his old age,(d) and he made a robe of many colors[a] for him. 4 When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not bring themselves to speak peaceably to him.
5 Then Joseph had a dream. When he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more. 6 He said to them, "Listen to this dream I had: 7 There we were, binding sheaves of grain in the field. Suddenly my sheaf stood up, and your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf."(e)
8 "Are you really going to reign over us?" his brothers asked him. "Are you really going to rule us?" So they hated him even more because of his dream and what he had said.
9 Then he had another dream and told it to his brothers. "Look," he said, "I had another dream, and this time the sun, moon, and 11 stars were bowing down to me."
10 He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him. "What kind of dream is this that you have had?" he said. "Are your mother and brothers and I going to come and bow down to the ground before you?" 11 His brothers were jealous of him,(f) but his father kept the matter in mind.(g)
Joseph Sold into Slavery
12 His brothers had gone to pasture their father's flocks at Shechem. 13 Israel said to Joseph, "Your brothers, you know, are pasturing the flocks at Shechem. Get ready. I'm sending you to them."
"I'm ready," Joseph replied.
14 Then Israel said to him, "Go and see how your brothers and the flocks are doing, and bring word back to me." So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron,(h) and he went to Shechem.
15 A man found him there, wandering in the field, and asked him, "What are you looking for?"
16 "I'm looking for my brothers," Joseph said. "Can you tell me where they are pasturing their flocks?"
17 "They've moved on from here," the man said. "I heard them say, ‘Let's go to Dothan.'"(i) So Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
18 They saw him in the distance, and before he had reached them, they plotted to kill him.(j) 19 They said to one another, "Here comes that dreamer![b] 20 Come on, let's kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal ate him. Then we'll see what becomes of his dreams!"
21 When Reuben heard this, he tried to save him from them.[c] He said, "Let's not take his life."(k) 22 Reuben also said to them, "Don't shed blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but don't lay a hand on him"—intending to rescue him from their hands and return him to his father.
23 When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped off his robe, the robe of many colors that he had on. 24 Then they took him and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it.
25 Then they sat down to eat a meal.(l) They looked up, and there was a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead.(m) Their camels were carrying aromatic gum, balsam, and resin, going down to Egypt.(n)
26 Then Judah said to his brothers, "What do we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood? 27 Come, let's sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh," and they agreed. 28 When Midianite(o) traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for 20 pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took Joseph to Egypt.(p)
29 When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes.(q) 30 He went back to his brothers and said, "The boy is gone! What am I going to do?"[d] 31 So they took Joseph's robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood. 32 They sent the robe of many colors to their father and said, "We found this. Examine it. Is it your son's robe or not?"
33 His father recognized it. "It is my son's robe," he said. "A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has been torn to pieces!"(r) 34 Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days. 35 All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. "No," he said. "I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning." And his father wept for him.
36 Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and the captain of the guard.
Judah and Tamar
1 At that time Judah left his brothers and settled near an Adullamite(a) named Hirah. 2 There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite named Shua; he took her as a wife and slept with her. 3 She conceived and gave birth to a son, and he named him Er.(b) 4 She conceived again, gave birth to a son, and named him Onan. 5 She gave birth to another son and named him Shelah. It was at Chezib that[a][b] she gave birth to him.
6 Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. 7 Now Er, Judah's firstborn, was evil in the Lord 's sight, and the Lord put him to death.(c) 8 Then Judah said to Onan, "Sleep with your brother's wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law(d) and produce offspring for your brother."(e) 9 But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, so whenever he slept with his brother's wife, he released his semen on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother. 10 What he did was evil in the Lord 's sight, so He put him to death also.
11 Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Remain a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up."(f) For he thought, "He might die too, like his brothers." So Tamar went to live in her father's house.
12 After a long time[c] Judah's wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to Timnah(g) to the sheepshearers. 13 Tamar was told, "Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep." 14 So she took off her widow's clothes, veiled her face,(h) covered herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim,[d] which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife. 15 When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.
16 He went over to her and said, "Come, let me sleep with you," for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law.(i)
She said, "What will you give me for sleeping with me?"
17 "I will send you a young goat from my flock," he replied.
But she said, "Only if you leave something with me until you send it."
18 "What should I give you?" he asked.
She answered, "Your signet ring, your cord, and the staff in your hand." So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she got pregnant by him. 19 She got up and left, then removed her veil and put her widow's clothes back on.
20 When Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite in order to get back the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her. 21 He asked the men of the place, "Where is the cult prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?"
"There has been no cult prostitute here," they answered.
22 So the Adullamite returned to Judah, saying, "I couldn't find her, and furthermore, the men of the place said, ‘There has been no cult prostitute here.'"
23 Judah replied, "Let her keep the items for herself; otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send this young goat, but you couldn't find her."
24 About three months later Judah was told, "Your daughter-in-law, Tamar, has been acting like a prostitute, and now she is pregnant."
"Bring her out!" Judah said. "Let her be burned to death!"(j)
25 As she was being brought out, she sent her father-in-law this message: "I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong." And she added, "Examine them. Whose signet ring, cord, and staff are these?"
26 Judah recognized them and said, "She is more in the right[e] than I,(k) since I did not give her to my son Shelah." And he did not know her intimately again.
27 When the time came for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb. 28 As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand, and the midwife took it and tied a scarlet thread around it, announcing, "This one came out first." 29 But then he pulled his hand back, and his brother came out. Then she said, "You have broken out first!" So he was named Perez.[f](l) 30 Then his brother, who had the scarlet thread tied to his hand, came out, and was named Zerah.[g]
Matthew 21:1-22
Chapter 21
The Triumphal Entry
1 When they approached Jerusalem(a) and came to Bethphage at the Mount of Olives,(b) Jesus then sent two disciples, 2 telling them, "Go into the village ahead of you. At once you will find a donkey tied there, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to Me. 3 If anyone says anything to you, you should say that the Lord needs them, and immediately he will send them."
4 This took place so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled:
5
Tell Daughter Zion,
"Look, your King is coming to you,
gentle, and mounted on a donkey,
even on a colt,
the foal of a beast of burden."
(c)[a]
6 The disciples went and did just as Jesus directed them. 7 They brought the donkey and the colt; then they laid their robes on them, and He sat on them. 8 A very large crowd spread their robes on the road; others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them on the road. 9 Then the crowds who went ahead of Him and those who followed kept shouting:
Hosanna
to the Son of David!
He who comes in the name
of the Lord is the blessed One!
[b]
Hosanna
in the highest heaven!(d)
10 When He entered Jerusalem, the whole city was shaken, saying, "Who is this?" 11 And the crowds kept saying, "This is the prophet Jesus(e) from Nazareth in Galilee!"
Cleansing the Temple Complex
12 Jesus went into the temple complex[c](f) and drove out all those buying and selling in the temple. He overturned the money changers' tables and the chairs of those selling doves.(g) 13 And He said to them, "It is written, My house will be called a house of prayer. [d] But you are making it a den of thieves !" (h)[e]
Children Praise Jesus
14 The blind and the lame came to Him in the temple complex, and He healed them. 15 When the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonders that He did and the children shouting in the temple complex, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were indignant 16 and said to Him, "Do You hear what these children are saying?"
"Yes," Jesus told them. "Have you never read:
You have prepared
[f]
praise
(i)
from the mouths of children and nursing infants
?"
[g]
17 Then He left them, went out of the city to Bethany,(j) and spent the night there.
The Barren Fig Tree
18 Early in the morning,(k) as He was returning to the city, He was hungry. 19 Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He went up to it and found nothing on it except leaves. And He said to it, "May no fruit ever come from you again!" At once the fig tree withered.
20 When the disciples saw it, they were amazed and said, "How did the fig tree wither so quickly?"
21 Jesus answered them, "I assure you: If you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you tell this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' it will be done.(l) 22 And if you believe, you will receive(m) whatever you ask for in prayer."
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