Quotes About Tradition

And Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath gave birth to Reuel,

These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. They are the grandsons of Esauís wife Basemath.

Korah, Gatam, and Amalek. They are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom, and they are the grandsons of Adah.

Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,

Now Judah acquired a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brotherís wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.”

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your fatherís house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her fatherís house.

When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”

she removed her widowís garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.

Then Tamar got up and departed. And she removed her veil and put on her widowís garments again.

And as she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it around his wrist. “This one came out first,” she announced.

Then his brother came out with the scarlet thread around his wrist, and he was named Zerah.

Since the brothers had been told that they were going to eat a meal there, they prepared their gift for Josephís arrival at noon.

The men are shepherds; they raise livestock, and they have brought their flocks and herds and all that they own.í

“What is your occupation?” Pharaoh asked Josephís brothers. “Your servants are shepherds,” they replied, “both we and our fathers.”

Then Joseph removed his sons from his fatherís knees and bowed facedown.

And Joseph took both of them—with Ephraim in his right hand toward Israelís left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israelís right hand—and brought them close to him.

But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger; and crossing his hands, he put his left on Manassehís head, although Manasseh was the firstborn.

When Joseph saw that his father had placed his right hand on Ephraimís head, he was displeased and took his fatherís hand to move it from Ephraimís head to Manassehís.

“Not so, my father!” Joseph said. “This one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”

So that day Jacob blessed them and said: “By you shall Israel pronounce this blessing: ëMay God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.í” So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

Then Jacob instructed them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.

There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and there I buried Leah.

And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,