Aggada -- Translations into English; Bible. Old Testament -- Legends; Jewish legends; Midrash -- Translations into English
In the same year, the year of Joseph's misfortune, all his other
brethren married, too. Reuben's wife was named Elyoram, the daughter of
the Canaanite Uzzi of Timnah. Simon married his sister Dinah first, and
then a second wife. When Simon and Levi massacred the men of Shechem,
Dinah refused to leave the city and follow her brethren, saying,
"Whither shall I carry my shame?" But Simon swore he would marry her,
as he did later, and when she died in Egypt, he took her body to the
Holy Land and buried it there. Dinah bore her brother a son,[96] and
from her union with Shechem, the son of Hamor, sprang a daughter,
Asenath by name, afterward the wife of Joseph. When this daughter was
born to Dinah, her brethren, the sons of Jacob, wanted to kill her,
that the finger of men might not point at the fruit of sin in their
father's house. But Jacob took a piece of tin, inscribed the Holy Name
upon it, and bound it about the neck of the girl, and he put her under
a thornbush, and abandoned her there. An angel carried the babe down to
Egypt, where Potiphar adopted her as his child, for his wife was
barren. Years thereafter, when Joseph travelled through the land as
viceroy, the maidens threw gifts at him, to make him turn his eyes in
their direction and give them the opportunity of gazing upon his
beauty. Asenath possessed nothing that would do as a present, therefore
she took off the amulet suspended from her neck, and gave it to him.
Thus Joseph became acquainted with her lineage, and he married her,
seeing that she was not an Egyptian, but one connected with the house
of Jacob through her mother.[97]
Beside the son of Dinah, Simon had another son, whose name was Saul, by
Bunah, the damsel he had taken captive in the campaign against Shechem.
Levi and Issachar married two daughters of Jobab, the grandson of Eber;
the wife of the former was named Adinah, the wife of the latter,
Aridah. Dan's wife was Elflalet, a daughter of the Moabite Hamudan. For
a long time their marriage remained childless, finally they had a son,
whom they called Hushim. Gad and Naphtali married women from Haran, two
sisters, daughters of Amoram, a grandson of Nahor. Naphtali's wife,
Merimit, was the older of the two, and the younger, the wife of Gad,
was named Uzit.
Asher's first wife was Adon, the daughter of Ephlal, a grandson of
Ishmael. She died childless, and he married a second wife, Hadorah, a
daughter of Abimael, the grandson of Shem. She had been married before,
her first husband having been Malchiel, also a grandson of Shem, and
the issue of this first marriage was a daughter, Serah by name. When
Asher brought his wife to Canaan, the three year old orphan Serah came
with them. She was raised in the house of Jacob, and she walked in the
way of pious children, and God gave her beauty, wisdom, and sagacity.
Zebulon's wife was Maroshah, the daughter of Molad, a grandson of
Midian, the son of Abraham by Keturah.
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