Then Yehuḏah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shĕlah is grown.” For he said, “Lest he also die as his brothers did.” And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.
And the sons of Yehuḏah: Ěr, and Onan, and Shĕlah, and Perets, and Zeraḥ – but Ěr and Onan died in the land of Kena‛an. And the sons of Perets were Ḥetsron and Ḥamul.
The sons of Yehuḏah: Ěr, and Onan, and Shĕlah, the three born to him by the daughter of Shuwa, the Kena‛anitess. And Ěr, the first-born of Yehuḏah, was evil in the eyes of יהוה, and He slew him.
The sons of Shĕlah the son of Yehuḏah: Ěr the father of Lĕḵah, and La‛dah the father of Marĕshah, and the clans of the house of the linen workers of the house of Ashbĕa;
And sons of Yehuḏah according to their clans: of Shĕlah, the clan of the Shĕlanites; of Perets, the clan of the Partsites; of Zeraḥ, the clan of the Zarḥites.