Judah chose a wife for his firstborn son Er. Her name was Tamar.
He lived in the desert of Paran, and his mother got him a wife from Egypt.
I want you to swear by the Lord God of heaven and earth that you will not get my son a wife from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I’m living.
Then she became pregnant again and gave birth to another son, whom she named Shelah. He was born at Kezib.
Er angered the Lord. So the Lord took away his life.
Judah and Tamar were the father and mother of Perez and Zerah. Perez was the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Ram,
