TBESH · H9001
/וַ · v · &
Verbal vav: joined to verb with no intervening prefix (usually conversive) (futurepast)
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/וַ (v) means “&” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: v STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
/וַ · v · &
Verbal vav: joined to verb with no intervening prefix (usually conversive) (futurepast)
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Then Israel told him, “Go now and see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And when Joseph arrived in Shechem,
Read word by worda man found him wandering in the field and asked, “What are you looking for?”
Read word by word“I am looking for my brothers,” Joseph replied. “Can you please tell me where they are pasturing their flocks?”
Read word by word“They have moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” So Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
Read word by wordNow Joseph’s brothers saw him in the distance, and before he arrived, they plotted to kill him.
Read word by word“Here comes that dreamer!” they said to one another.
Read word by word“Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal has devoured him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams!”
Read word by wordWhen Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue Joseph from their hands. “Let us not take his life,” he said.
Read word by word“Do not shed his blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this so that he could rescue Joseph from their hands and return him to his father.
Read word by wordSo when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe—the robe of many colors he was wearing—
Read word by wordand they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, with no water in it.
Read word by wordAnd as they sat down to eat a meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh on their way down to Egypt.
Read word by wordThen Judah said to his brothers, “What profit will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?
Read word by wordCome, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him; for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And they agreed.
Read word by wordSo when the Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.
Read word by wordWhen Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes,
Read word by wordreturned to his brothers, and said, “The boy is gone! What am I going to do?”
Read word by wordThen they took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.
Read word by wordThey sent the robe of many colors to their father and said, “We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son’s robe or not.”
Read word by wordHis father recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”
Read word by wordThen Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
Read word by wordAll his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.
Read word by wordAbout that time, Judah left his brothers and settled near a man named Hirah, an Adullamite.
Read word by wordThere Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua, and he took her as a wife and slept with her.
Read word by wordSo she conceived and gave birth to a son, and Judah named him Er.
Read word by wordAgain she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Onan.
Read word by wordThen she gave birth to another son and named him Shelah; it was at Chezib that she gave birth to him.
Read word by wordNow Judah acquired a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
Read word by wordBut Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; so the LORD put him to death.
Read word by wordThen Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.”
Read word by wordBut Onan knew that the offspring would not belong to him; so whenever he would sleep with his brother’s wife, he would spill his seed on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.
Read word by wordWhat he did was wicked in the sight of the LORD, so He put Onan to death as well.
Read word by wordThen Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.
Read word by wordAfter a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.
Read word by wordWhen Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”
Read word by wordshe removed her widow’s 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.
Read word by wordWhen Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.
Read word by wordNot realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “What will you give me for sleeping with you?” she inquired.
Read word by word“I will send you a young goat from my flock,” Judah answered. But she replied, “Only if you leave me something as a pledge until you send it.”
Read word by word“What pledge should I give you?” he asked. She answered, “Your seal and your cord, and the staff in your hand.” So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
Read word by wordThen Tamar got up and departed. And she removed her veil and put on her widow’s garments again.
Read word by wordNow when Judah sent his friend Hirah the Adullamite with the young goat to collect the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her.
Read word by wordHe asked the men of that place, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “No shrine prostitute has been here,” they answered.
Read word by wordSo Hirah returned to Judah and said, “I could not find her, and furthermore, the men of that place said, ‘No shrine prostitute has been here.’”
Read word by word“Let her keep the items,” Judah replied. “Otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you could not find her.”
Read word by wordAbout three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”
Read word by wordAs she was being brought out, Tamar sent a message to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Please examine them. Whose seal and cord and staff are these?”
Read word by wordJudah recognized the items and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not have relations with her again.
Read word by wordWhen the time came for Tamar to give birth, there were twins in her womb.
Read word by wordAnd 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.
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