1. About that time Judah left his brothers in the hill country and went to live near his friend Hirah in the town of Adullam.
2. While there he met the daughter of Shua, a Canaanite man. Judah married her,
3. and they had three sons. He named the first one Er;
4. she named the next one Onan.
5. The third one was born when Judah was in Chezib, and she named him Shelah.
6. Later, Judah chose Tamar as a wife for Er, his eldest son.