Quotes about Deception
Then they took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.
— Genesis 37:31
They 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.”
— Genesis 37:32
His father recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”
— Genesis 37:33
But 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.
— Genesis 38:9
Then 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.
— Genesis 38:11
When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”
— Genesis 38:13
When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.
— Genesis 38:15
Not 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.
— Genesis 38:16
“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.
— Genesis 38:18
He 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.
— Genesis 38:21
As 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?”
— Genesis 38:25
When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house,
— Genesis 39:13