³ Sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, three have been born to him of a daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, first-born of Judah, is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and He putteth him to death.

² and Judah seeth there the daughter of a man, a Canaanite, whose name `is' Shuah, and taketh her, and goeth in unto her.

³ And she conceiveth, and beareth a son, and he calleth his name Er;

⁴ and she conceiveth again, and beareth a son, and calleth his name Onan;

⁵ and she addeth again, and beareth a son, and calleth his name Shelah; and he was in Chezib in her bearing him.

⁶ And Judah taketh a wife for Er, his first-born, and her name `is' Tamar;

⁷ and Er, Judah's first-born, is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth put him to death.

⁸ And Judah saith to Onan, `Go in unto the wife of thy brother, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother;'

⁹ 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;

¹⁰ and that which he hath done is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and He putteth him also to death.

¹² And sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah, (and Er and Onan die in the land of Canaan.) And sons of Pharez are Hezron and Hamul.

¹⁹ Sons of Judah `are' Er and Onan; and Er dieth -- Onan also -- in the land of Canaan.

⁵ And of the Shilonite: Asaiah the first-born, and his sons.