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And she conceiveth, and beareth a son, and he calleth his name Er;
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and she conceiveth again, and beareth a son, and calleth his name Onan;
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and she addeth again, and beareth a son, and calleth his name Shelah; and he was in Chezib in her bearing him.
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And Judah taketh a wife for Er, his first-born, and her name [is] Tamar;
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and Er, Judah's first-born, is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth put him to death.
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And Judah saith to Onan, `Go in unto the wife of thy brother, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother;'
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and 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;
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and that which he hath done is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and He putteth him also to death.
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And 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.
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And 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.
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And it is declared to Tamar, saying, `Lo, thy husband's father is going up to Timnath to shear his flock;'