Saying, Master, Moses wrote to us, If any man’s brother dies, having a wife, and he dies without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up descendents for his brother.
Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at your father’s house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Perhaps he will die also, as his brothers did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.