Afterward his brother came out with the crimson thread on his hand, and he was named Zerah.
The children of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan), and the children of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
His daughter-in-law Tamar also bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.
Of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their kin, six hundred ninety.
And Pethahiah son of Meshezabel, of the descendants of Zerah son of Judah, was at the king’s hand in all matters concerning the people.
and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Aram,