Judahwent down, away from his brothersThere Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite namedShua;he marriedher, and had intercourse with her.3She conceived and bore a son,whom she namedEr.4Again she conceived and bore a son, whom shenamedOnan.5Then she bore still another son, whom she namedShelah.Judah got a wife namedTamarfor his firstborn, Er.7But Er, Judah’sfirstborn, greatly offended theLORD; so theLORDtook his life.8ThenJudah said to Onan, “Have intercourse with your brother’s wife, infulfillment of your duty as brother-in-law, and thus preserve yourbrother’s line.”[c]9Onan, however, knew that the offspring would not behis; so whenever he had intercourse with his brother’s wife, he wastedhis seed on the ground, to avoid giving offspring to his brother.10Whathe did greatly offended theLORD, and theLORDtook his life too.11ThenJudah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Remain a widow inyour father’s house until my son Shelah grows up”—for he
