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Joseph\'s brothers did not take kindly to him, but even more so after\\xa0he has a dream in which they bow down to him. The brothers conspire\\xa0againt Joseph, but Reuben convinces them not to kill Joseph, but\\xa0rather to trap Joseph in a well, and sell him to Ishmaelites, who sell\\xa0Joseph to Potipher, a functionary of the pharaoh. The brothers\\xa0convince Jacob that Joseph had been killed by an animal.

Judah marries a Canaanite woman and has three sons. The first, Er,\\xa0marries Tamar, but the Lord puts him to death because he is wicked.\\xa0Judah instructs his next son, Onan, to take Tamar as his wife, but he\\xa0refuses to consummate the marriage, and leaves Tamar in a precarious\\xa0state in relation to the family as a childless daughter-in-law. God\\xa0also kills Onan for this act. Judah promises Tamar Shelah when he\\xa0grows up, but when this does not happen, she pretends to be a\\xa0prostitute and conceives twins by Shelah. Tamar will be one of the\\xa0women mentioned in the genealogy of Christ.