11 Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, w“Remain a widow in your father’s house, xtill Shelah my son grows up”—for he feared that he would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went and remained in her father’s house.
14 she took off her widow’s garments and zcovered herself with a veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him in marriage.
29 But as he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out. And she said, “What a breach you have made for yourself!” Therefore his name was called Perez.1 30 gAfterward his brother came out with the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.
12 and may your house be like the house of dPerez, whom eTamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring that the Lord will give you by this young woman.”
3 and hJudah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram,1
