1 About that time, Judah left his brothers and went to stay with a man named Hirah in the town of Adullam.
2 There Judah met a Canaanite girl, the daughter of a man named Shua, and married her. Judah had sexual relations with her,
3 and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son, whom Judah named Er.
4 Later she gave birth to another son and named him Onan.
5 Still later she had another son and named him Shelah. She was at Kezib when this third son was born.
6 Judah chose a girl named Tamar to be the wife of his first son Er.
7 But Er, Judah’s oldest son, did what the Lord said was evil, so the Lord killed him.