Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.
I want you to swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,
She gave birth to still another son and named him Shelah. It was at Kezib that she gave birth to him.
But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death.
Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar, Perez the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Ram,