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Yet again she bore a son, and she named him Shelah. She was in Chezib when she bore him.
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Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn; her name was Tamar.
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But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord put him to death.
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Then Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her; raise up offspring for your brother."
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But since Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, he spilled his semen on the ground whenever he went in to his brother's wife, so that he would not give offspring to his brother.
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What he did was displeasing in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death also.
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Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Remain a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up"—for he feared that he too would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went to live in her father's house.
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In course of time the wife of Judah, Shua's daughter, died; when Judah's time of mourning was over, he went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
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When Tamar was told, "Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,"
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she put off her widow's garments, put on a veil, wrapped herself up, and sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. She saw that Shelah was grown up, yet she had not been given to him in marriage.
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When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a prostitute, for she had covered her face.