Verse 3

Sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, three have been born to him of a daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, first-born of Judah, is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and He putteth him to death.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 38:2-9 : 2 and Judah seeth there the daughter of a man, a Canaanite, whose name `is' Shuah, and taketh her, and goeth in unto her. 3 And she conceiveth, and beareth a son, and he calleth his name Er; 4 and she conceiveth again, and beareth a son, and calleth his name Onan; 5 and she addeth again, and beareth a son, and calleth his name Shelah; and he was in Chezib in her bearing him. 6 And Judah taketh a wife for Er, his first-born, and her name `is' Tamar; 7 and Er, Judah's first-born, is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth put him to death. 8 And Judah saith to Onan, `Go in unto the wife of thy brother, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother;' 9 and Onan knoweth that the seed is not `reckoned' his; and it hath come to pass, if he hath gone in unto his brother's wife, that he hath destroyed `it' to the earth, so as not to give seed to his brother; 10 and that which he hath done is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and He putteth him also to death.
• Gen 46:12 : 12 And sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah, (and Er and Onan die in the land of Canaan.) And sons of Pharez are Hezron and Hamul.
• Num 26:19 : 19 Sons of Judah `are' Er and Onan; and Er dieth -- Onan also -- in the land of Canaan.
• 1 Chr 9:5 : 5 And of the Shilonite: Asaiah the first-born, and his sons.