Cross References

Genesis 38:6

New Living Translation

In the course of time, Judah arranged for his firstborn son, Er, to marry a young woman named Tamar.

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and he settled in the wilderness of Paran. His mother arranged for him to marry a woman from the land of Egypt.

Swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not allow my son to marry one of these local Canaanite women.

And when she gave birth to a third son, she named him Shelah. At the time of Shelah’s birth, they were living at Kezib.

But Er was a wicked man in the Lord’s sight, so the Lord took his life.

Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah (whose mother was Tamar). Perez was the father of Hezron. Hezron was the father of Ram.