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Genesis 38
⁴ She conceived again and bore a son, and she called his name Onan.
⁵ And she conceived yet again and bore a son, and called his name Shelah. He was at Chezib when she bore him.
⁶ Then Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
⁷ But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord killed him.
⁸ And Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother’s wife and marry her, and raise up an heir to your brother."
⁹ But Onan knew that the heir would not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in to his brother’s wife, that he emitted on the ground, lest he should give an heir to his brother.
¹⁰ And the thing which he did displeased the Lord; therefore He killed him also.
¹¹ Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father’s house till my son Shelah is grown." For he said, "Lest he also die like his brothers." And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.
¹² Now in the process of time the daughter of Shua, Judah’s wife, died; and Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
¹³ And it was told Tamar, saying, "Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."
¹⁴ So she took off her widow’s garments, covered herself with a veil and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place which was on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given to him as a wife.