Hebrew Myths (49 page)

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Gen. Rab. 432; Pesiqta Rabbati 179a.

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Tanhuma Buber Gen. 85–86; B. Baba Metzia 86b; Gen. Rab. 517–18.

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Genesis
XVIII. 16–33; XIX. 1–28.

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PRE, ch. 25; Gen. Rab. 523.

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Sepher Hayashar 58.

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Sepher Hayashar 62.

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PRE, ch. 25; Sepher Hayashar 63–65.

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PRE, ch. 25; cf. Gen. Rab. 504–05, 519; B. Sanhedrin 109a–b.

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Genesis
XIX. 30–38.

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Mekhilta Beshallah, Mass. diShirata 72; Sifre 81a.

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Sepher Hayashar 84.

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Genesis
XXII. 1–2; Gen. Rab. 590, 592; Tanhuma Buber Gen. 111; Pesiqta Rabbati 170a; PRE, ch. 31.

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Genesis
XXII. 3–19.

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Sepher Hayashar 76–77.

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Sepher Hayashar 77–79; cf. Gen. Rab. 595–98.

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Sepher Hayashar 80; PRE, ch. 31.

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Sepher Hayashar 80.

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Lev. Rab. 29.9; Gen. Rab. 607; Yer. Taamit 65d; Tanhuma Buber Gen. 46.

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Genesis
XXIII. 1–20; Mid. Wayosha, BHM i. 35 ff; PRE, ch. 32; Sepher Hayashar 81–83.

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Tanhuma Hayye Sarah 4; B. Baba Metzia 87a; Gen. Rab. 717–18.

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Genesis
XXV. 1; Gen. Rab. 654, 661; Tanhuma Hayye Sarah 8; Tanhuma Buber Gen. 123; PRE, ch. 30; Hadar Zeqenim 9b; Leqah Tobh Gen. 115.

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Genesis XXV. 2–6; Gen. Rab. 663, 669; Shoher Tobh 411–12; 1
Macc.
XII. 21; 2
Macc.
V. 9.

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B. Sanhedrin 91a; Zohar Gen. 133b, 223a–b.

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Massekhet Soferim 11.9; Tanhuma Hayye Sarah 6.

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Genesis
XXII. 20–24.

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Genesis
XXIV. 1–67; XXV. 20; XXXV. 8.

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Gen. Rab. 614; Mid. Hagadol Gen. 356.

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Gen. Rab. 612–13, 636–37; Mid. Hagadol Gen. 388–89, 770–71.

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Massekhet Soferim 21.9, end; M. Nidda 5.4; Yalqut Gen. 109; Gen. Rab. 652; Mid. Agada Gen. 59; Hadar 9b.

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Yalqut Gen. 109; Mid. Hagadol Gen. 366, 369–70; Gen. Rab. 651–53; Mid. Agada Gen. 59–60; Mid. Leqah Tobh Gen. 111, 113; Mekhilta diR. Shimon 45; Da’at 13d, 14b; Hadar 9b.

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Genesis
XXVI. 1–17.

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Genesis
XXV. 20–27.

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Gen. Rab. 687–691.

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Gen. Rab. 683–84; Yalqut Gen. 110; Seder Eliahu Zuta 26–27.

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Yalqut Gen. 110; Bereshit Rabbati 103; Tanhuma Buber Deut. 35–36; Tanhuma Ki Tetze, ch. 4; Pesiqta Rabbati 48a.

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Aboth diR. Nathan 12; Mid. Tehillim 84; Tanhuma Buber Gen. 127; Gen. Rab. 698; PRE, ch. 29.

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Gen. Rab. 692–93, 713; Tanhuma Buber Gen. 125; Tanhuma Ki Tetze, ch. 4; Mid. Leqah Tobh Gen. 127; Pesiqta Rabbati 47b; B. Baba Bathra 16b.

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Genesis
XXV. 7–10.

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PRE, ch. 36.

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Jubilees
XXII. 1-XXIII. 7; Pesiqta Rabbati 47b; Tanhuma Buber Gen. 126.

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Testament of Abraham
, 1–38.

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Genesis
XXV. 29–34.

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Gen. Rab. 694–97, 699; Sepher Hayashar 90–91; B. Baba Bathra 16b; Tanhuma Buber 125–27; Pesiqta Rabbati 47b–48a; Mid. Leqah Tobh Gen. 123–24; Mid. Sekhel Tobh and Imre Noam
ad Gen.
XXV. 26; Mid. Hagadol Gen. 400–401; Mid. Agada Gen. 64–65; Bereshit Rabbati 105.

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Gen. Rab. 728; Pesiqta Rabbati 124a; Mid. Leqah Tobh Gen. 133; Cf. Ginzberg LJ, V. 278.

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Genesis
XXVII. 1–41.

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Tanhuma Buber Gen. 131; Tanhuma Toldot ch. 11; Gen. Rab. 754; Mid. Leqah Tobh Gen. 135; Targum Yer.
ad Gen.
XXVII. 31.

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Gen. Rab. 727, 730, 740–41, 756, 762–63, 765; Mid. Hagadol Gen. 424, 435, 440; Mid. Leqah Tobh Gen. 132–34, 137–38; Tanhuma Buber Gen. 131–33; Mid. Sekhel Tobh 117;
Jubilees
XXVI. 13.

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Genesis
XXVI. 34; XXVIII. 8–9; XXXVI. 2.

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Gen. Rab. 764–65; Agadat Bereshit 6, 95–96; Mid. Tehillim 112; Hadar on
Gen.
XXVII. 42; Mid. Hagadol Gen. 440.

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Mid. Hagadol Gen. 440; Seder Olam 2; B. Megillah 17a; Nur al-Zulm 87; Gen. Rab. 768–69; Sepher Hayashar 99–100.

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Genesis
XXXVI. 1–14.

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Genesis
XXVII. 42; XXVIII. 5.

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Jubilees
XXV. 1 ff.; Gen. Rab. 767; Mid. Sekhel Tobh 119; Mid. Hagadol Gen. 437; Sepher Hayashar 96–98.

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Genesis XXVIII. 10–22.

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Gen. Rab. 780–82; Bereshit Rabbati 118; PRE, ch. 35; Sepher Hayashar 98; Mid. Tehillim 399; B. Hullin 91b; Seder Eliahu Rabba 29; Tanhuma Buber Gen. 181.

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Tanhuma Buber Lev. 72–73; cf. Ginzberg, LJ, V. 275, 291.

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Lev. Rab. 29.2; PRE, ch. 35; Pesiqta diR. Kahana 150b–151a; Mid. Tehillim 347.

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PRE, ch. 35; Mid. Tehillim 400.

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Genesis
XXIX. 1–10; PRE, ch. 36; Gen. Rab. 817; Targum Yer.
ad Gen.
XXVIII. 22 and XXI. 22.

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Genesis
XXIX. 11–12; Gen. Rab. 811–12.

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Genesis
XXIX. 12–13; Mid. Hagadol Gen. 460–61.

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Yalqut Reubeni
ad Gen.
XXIX. 15; Tanhuma Wayetse 40b; PRE, ch. 36; Sepher Hayashar 103.

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Genesis
XXIX. 14–19; Gen. Rab. 813–14.

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B. Baba Bathra 123a; Tanhuma Buber Gen. 152, 157; Gen. Rab. 815–16, 821–22.

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Tanhuma Buber Gen. 153, 157.

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Gen. Rab. 817–19; Targum Yer.
ad Gen.
XXIX. 22; Sepher Hayashar 100–01; B. Megilla 13b; B. Baba Bathra 123a; Mid. Hagadol Gen. 463–64; Azulai,
Hesed le-Abraham
II. 6.

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Gen. Rab. 816.

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Genesis
XXIX. 20–24; B. Megilla 13b; B. Baba Bathra 123a; Gen. Rab. 819.

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Genesis
XXIX. 25–27; Gen. Rab. 814, 819; Tanhuma Buber Gen. 153; B. Sukka 27b; B. Megilla 13b; B. Baba Bathra 123a;
Jubilees
XXVIII. 4–9.

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Genesis
XXIX. 28–30; Gen. Rab. 870; PRE, ch. 36; Targum Yer.
ad Gen.
XXIX. 24; Bereshit Rabbati 119.

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Genesis
XXIX. 31; XXX. 13; Gen. Rab. 829–30; Tanhuma Buber Gen. 158; Agadat Bereshit 103–05.

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Genesis
XXX. 14; Gen. Rab. 837; Yer. Erubin 26c; Yer. Shabbat 8b; Zohar Gen. 268, 314; Josephus,
Wars
VII. 6.3.

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Genesis
XXX. 14–24; Midrash Agada Gen. 112; Abraham Saba,
Seror HaMor
, Venice, 1523, p. 34a;
Test. of Issachar
I–II; Gen. Rab. 841, 1282; B. Niddah 31a; Mid. Leqah Tobh Gen. 152; B. Erubin 100b.

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Genesis
XXX. 19–20.

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Genesis
XXXV. 16–20.

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Genesis
XXX. 19–21; PRE, ch. 36; B. Baba Bathra 123a; Gen. Rab. 823.

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Sepher Haqane 32b; Midrash Agada Num. 78;
Test. of Issachar
II.

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Genesis
XXX. 25–43; Sepher Hayashar 101–02.

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Genesis
XXXI. 1–16; Sepher Hayashar 99.

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Genesis
XXXI. 17–35.

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Genesis
XXXI. 36; XXXII. 1; PRE, ch. 36.

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Tanhuma Wayetse 40b; PRE, ch. 36; Sepher Hayashar 103; Gen. Rab. 863; Targum Yer.
ad Gen.
XXXI. 21–22.

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Sepher Hayashar 105–06.

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Genesis
XXXII. 2–24.

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Genesis
XXXII. 25–33.

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Gen. Rab. 910; Yalqut Reubeni
ad Gen.
XXXII. 25.

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Yalqut Gen. 132; PRE, ch. 37.

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PRE, ch. 37.

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Genesis
XXXIII. 1–17.

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Sepher Hayashar 106–107.

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Sepher Hayashar 110; PRE, ch. 37.

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PRE, ch. 37; Gen. Rab. 891;
Genesis
XXXVI. 31–39.

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Tanhuma Buber Gen. 169.

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Mid. Abkir, as quoted in Yalqut Gen. 133 (pp. 82b–83a).

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Tanhuma Buber Gen. 157, 172; B. Berakhot 60a; Gen. Rab. 845; Yer. Berakhot 14a–14b.

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Gen. Rab. 907–08, 928, 954; Mid. Agada Gen. 83, 85.

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PRE, ch. 38;
Genesis
XXXIV. 1–19.

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Genesis
XXXIV. 20–31.

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Sepher Hayashar 113–19; Mid. Leqah Tobh Gen. 174–75; Gen. Rab. 956, 965; Saba,
Tseror
HaMor on WaYehi 59c.

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Sepher Hayashar, 113–19; Tanhuma Buber Introduction 127; Gen. Rab. 965–66.

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Gen. Rab. 966; Mid. Sekhel Tobh 194; Mid. Hagadol Gen. 527.

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PRE, ch. 38; Targum Yer.
Gen.
XLI. 45 and XLVI. 20; Yalqut Gen. 146; Sopherim, end; Hadar and Daat on
Gen.
XLI. 45; Hadar on
Gen.
XXXIV. 1; Yalqut Reubeni on
Gen.
XXXII. 25; Oppenheim,
Fabula Josephi et Asenathae
, Berlin, 1886, pp. 4 ff.

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Gen. Rab. 966–67; Sepher Hayashar 202; Mid. Hagadol Gen. 527; Shu’aib, Wa-Yishlah 16a;
Test. of Job
I. 11.

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Genesis
XXXV. 22; XLIX. 3–4; 1
Chronicles
V. 1.

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Gen. Rab. 1254–55; B. Shabbat 55b; Tanhuma Buber Gen. 218; Hadar 14d and 15d.

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Testament of Reuben
I. 1–10; III. 9–IV. 3.

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Gen. Rab. 1253; Tanhuma Buber Gen. 218.

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Gen. Rab. 1254.

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Genesis
XXXVIII. 1–12.

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Genesis
XXXVIII. 12–25.

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Genesis
XXXVIII. 24–26.

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Genesis
XXXVIII. 27–30.

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Gen. Rab. 1042, 1044; Tanhuma Buber Introd. 129 and Gen. 187; Mid. Hagadol Gen. 569, 572, 574;
Test. of Judah
XII; XIV. 3–5; B. Sota 10a–b.

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Jubilees
XXXVII–XXXVIII.

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Mid. Wayissa’u, Yalqut Gen. 133; BHM, iii. 4–5.

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Testament of Gad
I. 1–II. 1; PRE, ch. 38, Gen. Rab. 1008–09; Tanhuma Buber Gen. 180; Yer. Peah 15d–16a.

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Sources as in preceding footnote and
Genesis
XXXVII. 1–11.

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Genesis
XXXVII. 12–24; Gen. Rab. 1015, 1017; Tanhuma Buber Gen. 183; PRE, ch. 38; Sepher Hayashar 146–47;
Test. of Zebulun
II.

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Genesis
XXXVII. 25–35; Gen. Rab. 1018–19;
Test of Zebulun
IV; Sepher Hayashar 141–48, 152–53.

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Sepher Hayashar 152–53, 156–57.

³⁹⁰
Genesis
XXXVII. 36; XXXIX. 1–9; Gen. Rab. 1031, 1064–68.

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Tanhuma Wayeshebh 5; Sepher Hayashar 159–60; cf. Koran XII. 30–33.

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B. Yoma 35b;
Test. of Joseph
IX. 5; Gen. Rab. 1075–76; etc.

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Sepher Hayashar 159–60.

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Genesis
XXXIX. 10–20; Gen. Rab. 1054–55, 1071–73; Sepher Hayashar 157; Tanhuma Wayeshebh 9.

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Sepher Hayashar 162–63.

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Genesis
XXXIX. 21; XL. 23; Gen. Rab. 1078–79; Sepher Hayashar 167.

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Sepher Hayashar 165; Tanhuma Wayeshebh 9.

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Genesis
XLI. 1–8; Gen. Rab. 1093.

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Genesis
XLI. 9–36; Gen. Rab. 1085, 1086, 1094; Tanhuma Miqes 3; Sepher Hayashar 174.