Now Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn; her name was Tamar.
He dwelt in the Wilderness of Paran; and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
And you shall swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I have settled,
Again she conceived and bore a son and named him Shelah. [They were living] at Chezib when she bore him.
And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord slew him.
Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar, Perez the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Aram,