⁵ She gave birth to still another son and named him Shelah.^(A) It was at Kezib that she gave birth to him.

¹¹ Judah then said to his daughter-in-law^(A) Tamar,^(B) “Live as a widow in your father’s household^(C) until my son Shelah^(D) grows up.”^(E) For he thought, “He may die too, just like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s household.

¹⁴ she took off her widow’s clothes,^(A) covered herself with a veil^(B) to disguise herself, and then sat down^(C) at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah.^(D) For she saw that, though Shelah^(E) had now grown up, she had not been given to him as his wife.

²⁶ Judah recognized them and said, “She is more righteous than I,^(A) since I wouldn’t give her to my son Shelah.^(B)” And he did not sleep with her again.

²⁰ The descendants of Judah by their clans were:

Judah^(A)

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