‘Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother has a wife, and dies childless, his brother should take the wife and produce offspring for his brother. ,
Judah recognised 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 know her intimately again.
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 thought, ‘He might die too, like his brothers.’ So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.