Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.
He lived in the Wilderness of Paran, and his mother found a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
and I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.
She again conceived and bore a son and called his name Shelah. He was at Kezib when she bore him.
But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord killed him.
Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram.