Genesis 38:1-13 ▼

1 About that tyme Iudas went downe from his brethren, and gate him to a man called Hirah of Adulam.

2 And there he saw ye daughter of a man called Sua, a Chanaanite: and he toke her, and went in to her.

3 And she conceaued, and bare a sonne, and called his name Er.

4 And she conceaued agayne, and bare a sonne, and called hym Onan.

5 And she conceaued agayne, and bare yet a sonne, whom she called Selah: & he was at Chezib whe she bare him.

6 And Iudas gaue Er his first borne sonne a wyfe, whose name was Thamar.

7 And Er Iudas first borne sonne was wicked in the syght of the Lorde, and the Lorde slewe hym.

8 And Iudas sayde vnto Onan: Go in to thy brothers wyfe, and marrie her, that thou mayest stirre vp seede vnto thy brother.

9 And when Onan perceaued that the seede shoulde not be his, therfore when he wet in to his brothers wyfe, he spylled it on the grounde, & gaue not seede vnto his brother.

10 And the thyng which he dyd, displeased the Lorde: wherfore he slewe hym also.

11 Then sayde Iudas to Thamar his daughter in lawe: Remayne a wydowe at thy fathers house, tyll Selah my sonne be growen. (For he sayde, lest peraduenture he dye also as his brethren dyd.) And Thamar went & dwelt in her fathers house.

12 And in processe of tyme, the daughter of Sua Iudas wyfe dyed: Then Iudas when he had left mournyng, went vnto his sheepe shearers to Thinmath, he and his friende Hirah of Adulam.

13 And one tolde Thamar, saying: beholde, thy father in lawe goeth vp to Thimnath to sheare his sheepe.