6. And Yehuḏah took a wife for Ěr his first-born, and her name was Tamar.
7. But Ěr, Yehuḏah’s first-born, was evil in the eyes of יהוה, and יהוה took his life.
8. And Yehuḏah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife and marry her, and raise up an heir to your brother.”
9. And Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. And it came to be, when he went in to his brother’s wife, that he spilled on the ground, lest he should give an offspring to his brother.
10. But what he did displeased יהוה, so He took his life too.
11. Then Yehuḏah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shĕlah is grown.” For he said, “Lest he also die as his brothers did.” And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.
12. And after a long time the daughter of Shuwa, Yehuḏah’s wife, died. And Yehuḏah was comforted, and went up to his sheep-shearers at Timnah, he and his friend Ḥirah the Aḏullamite.
13. And it was reported to Tamar, saying, “See, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”