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35 And she conceived again, gave birth to a son, and said, ‘This time I will praise the Lord.’ Therefore she named him Judah.[a](A) Then Leah stopped having children.

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Footnotes

  1. 29:35 In Hb, the name Judah sounds like ‘praise.’

19 Judah’s sons included Er and Onan, but they died in the land of Canaan.(A) 20 Judah’s descendants by their clans:

the Shelanite clan from Shelah;

the Perezite clan from Perez;(B)

the Zerahite clan from Zerah.

21 The descendants of Perez:

the Hezronite clan from Hezron;

the Hamulite clan from Hamul.

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Judah’s Descendants

Judah’s(A) sons: Er, Onan, and Shelah.(B) These three were born to him by Bath-shua the Canaanite woman. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the Lord’s sight, so he put him to death. Judah’s daughter-in-law Tamar bore Perez and Zerah to him. Judah had five sons in all.

Perez’s sons: Hezron and Hamul.

Zerah’s sons: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara[a](C) – five in all.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:6 Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr, Tg, Vg read Darda; 1Kg 4:31