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.
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.
She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of `Enayim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelach was grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife.
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 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;
In Yerushalayim lived certain of the children of Yehudah, and of the children of Binyamin. Of the children of Yehudah: `Atayah the son of `Uzziyah, the son of Zekharyah, the son of Amaryah, the son of Shefatyah, the son of Mahalal'el, of the children of Peretz;