¹² and let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the seed which Yahweh shall give you of this young woman.

²⁹ It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out, and she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?" Therefore his name was called Perez.{Perez means "breaking out."}

¹² The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

²⁰ Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, Yahweh give you seed of this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh. They went to their own home.

⁴ Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.

³ Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar. Perez became the father of Hezron. Hezron became the father of Ram.

²⁰ The sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.

²¹ The sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.

²² These are the families of Judah according to those who were numbered of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred.

¹⁸ Now this is the history of the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron,