Genesis 38:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ Yet again she bore a son, and she named him Shelah. She was in Chezib when she bore him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Again she conceived and bore a son and named him Shelah. [They were living] at Chezib when she bore him.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ And she yet again bare a son, and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.

Common English Bible

⁵ Then she gave birth to one more son and named him Shelah. She was in Chezib when she gave birth to him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Likewise, she bore a third, whom she called Shelah, after whose birth, she ceased to bear any more.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ She bore also a third: whom she called Sela. After whose birth, she ceased to bear any more.

Genesis 38:5 Cross References

Genesis 38:11

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up,” for he feared that he too would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

Genesis 38:26

Then Judah acknowledged them and said, “She is more in the right than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not lie with her again.

Genesis 38:6

Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn; her name was Tamar.

Genesis 46:12

The children of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan), and the children of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

1 Chronicles 2:3

The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah; these three the Canaanite woman Bath-shua bore to him. Now Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death.

1 Chronicles 4:21

The sons of Shelah son of Judah: Er father of Lecah, Laadah father of Mareshah, and the families of the guild of linen workers at Beth-ashbea;

Numbers 26:19

The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

Numbers 26:20

The descendants of Judah by their clans were: of Shelah, the clan of the Shelanites; of Perez, the clan of the Perezites; of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites.