¹¹ Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “^(A)Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up”; for he ^[a]thought, “I am afraid lest he also die like his brothers.” So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.

⁵ “If brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, then the wife of the one who died shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. ^(A)Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.