Genesis 38

¹And it cometh to pass, at that time, that Judah goeth down from his brethren, and turneth aside unto a man, an Adullamite, whose name [is] Hirah;

²and Judah seeth there the daughter of a man, a Canaanite, whose name [is] Shuah, and taketh her, and goeth in unto her.

³And she conceiveth, and beareth a son, and he calleth his name Er;

⁴and she conceiveth again, and beareth a son, and calleth his name Onan;

⁵and she addeth again, and beareth a son, and calleth his name Shelah; and he was in Chezib in her bearing him.

⁶And Judah taketh a wife for Er, his first-born, and her name [is] Tamar;

⁷and Er, Judah's first-born, is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth put him to death.

⁸And Judah saith to Onan, 'Go in unto the wife of thy brother, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother;'

⁹and Onan knoweth that the seed is not [reckoned] his; and it hath come to pass, if he hath gone in unto his brother's wife, that he hath destroyed [it] to the earth, so as not to give seed to his brother;

¹⁰and that which he hath done is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and He putteth him also to death.

¹¹And Judah saith to Tamar his daughter-in-law, 'Abide a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son groweth up;' for he said, 'Lest he die — even he — like his brethren;' and Tamar goeth and dwelleth at her father's house.

¹²And the days are multiplied, and the daughter of Shuah, Judah's wife, dieth; and Judah is comforted, and goeth up unto his sheep-shearers, he and Hirah his friend the Adullamite, to Timnath.