4
She conceived again and had a son, and she called him Onan.
5
Then she conceived yet again and had a son whom she called Shelah; he was in K'ziv when she gave birth to him.
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Y'hudah took a wife for 'Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
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But 'Er, Y'hudah's firstborn, was evil from ADONAI's perspective, so ADONAI killed him.
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Y'hudah said to Onan, "Go and sleep with your brother's wife - perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and preserve your brother's line of descent."
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However, Onan knew that the child would not count as his; so whenever he had intercourse with his brother's wife, he spilled the semen on the ground, so as not to give his brother offspring.
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What he did was evil from ADONAI's perspective, so he killed him too.
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Then Y'hudah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, "Stay a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up"; for he thought, "I don't want him to die too, like his brothers." So Tamar went and lived at home with her father.
12
In due time, Shua's daughter, the wife of Y'hudah, died. After Y'hudah had been comforted, he went up to be with his sheep-shearers in Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the 'Adulami.
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Tamar was told, "Your father-in-law has gone up to Timnah to shear his sheep."
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So she took off her widow's clothes, completely covered her face with her veil, and sat at the entrance to 'Einayim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah had grown up, but she still was not being given to him as his wife.