And the sons of Judah by their families: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Pharez, the family of the Pharzites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.
And Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah is grown. For he said, Lest he also die like his brothers. And Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.
And she took off her widow’s robes from her, and veiled herself with a veil, and disguised herself. And she sat at the entrance of the fountains, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she had not been given to him for a wife.
And the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah. And Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez: Hezron, and Hamul.
The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er, the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, from the house of Ashbea;
And in Jerusalem lived some of the sons of Judah, and of the sons of Benjamin. From the sons of Judah were Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalaleel, of the sons of Perez;
Out of the tribe of Judah, twelve thousand having been sealed. Out of the tribe of Reuben, twelve thousand having been sealed. Out of the tribe of Gad, twelve thousand having been sealed.