**Tamar** conceived and bore twins, and she called the name of the first Peretz and the name of the second Zerach [(Year 2228) (Sefer HaYashar)]. In the 32nd year of Yehudah's life, which was 8 years after Peretz was born, Chetzron and Chamul were born in the ninth year [(Seder Olam Zuta, see Year 2238-2239)]. Peretz was Er and Zerach was Onan (Na'ach with the omissions, Parashat Vayeshev and Iyar, Vayeshev section 9).

And they were reincarnated...

**Esav heard** that the days of Yitzchak were near to death, and he and his sons came from the land of Edom to the land of Canaan to Yitzchak his father. Yaakov and his sons came from the place where they were dwelling to Yitzchak their father, and Yaakov was still mourning for Yosef his son. Yitzchak said to Yaakov, "Bring your sons close and I will bless them." Yitzchak placed his hands on the twelve sons and...

**Yitzchak** died in Hebron in Year 2228, 120 years after Yaakov [(Seder HaDorot writes Year 2228, 37 years after Levi. This is because Levi was born in Year 2195, so he was 32 at Yitzchak's death, see page 67b)]. Kena"i, part 2, section 119, writes that in the year of Yitzchak's death, Yosef reigned. In Seder HaDorot 20 it is written that when Yosef was 30 years old when he stood before Pharaoh, Yitzchak died.

Similarly in Yesod Olam...

**The king sent** to Potiphera son of Achira, priest of On, and he took Osnat, his young daughter, and gave her to Yosef as a wife. She was very beautiful [(Sefer HaYashar)]. Osnat, wife of Yosef, was the daughter of Dinah (Pirkei d'Rabbi Eliezer), and Dinah's formation was male (see Year 2198). Leah saw that Dinah herself, lest she be like one of the handmaids, and she turned...