Then Yehudah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, *Remain a widow in your father's house, until Shelach, my son, is grown up;* for he said, *Lest he also die, like his brothers.* Tamar went and lived in her father's house.
The sons of Yehudah: `Er, Onan, Shelach, Peretz, and Zerach; but `Er and Onan died in the land of Kena`an. The sons of Peretz were Chetzron and Chamul.
The sons of Yehudah: `Er, and Onan, and Shelach; which three were born to him of Shu`a's daughter the Kena`anite. `Er, Yehudah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and he killed him.
The sons of Shelah, the son of Yehudah: `Er the father of Lekha, and La`adah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, of the house of Ashbea;
The sons of Yehudah after their families were: of Shelach, the family of the Shelani; of Peretz, the family of the Partzi; of Zerach, the family of the Zarchi.