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After him came his brother, who had the red thread around his wrist. He was named Zerach (Sera).
[In this chapter, the names Boaz, Ruth, Oved, Jishai, and David are encoded in verses 11-28 with 49 letters between them. The five names leading up to David in the genealogy at the end of the Book of Ruth, see , are thus found in exactly the right order with 7 x 7 letter intervals in this very passage about Perets, five generations before Boaz. One must be a little cautious with Bible codes, but it is still a strange coincidence that points to the Bible being a divinely inspired book.]
The sons of Judah:
Er and Onan [pronounced "Ohnan"] and Shelah and Perez and Zerah,
but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
The sons of Judah by their families:
By Shelah, the family of the Shelahites,
by Perez, the family of the Perezites,
by Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.
[Now the first chiasm turns and moves back. This passage is related to chapter 2. Here, discontent arises because of an unfaithful Israelite. He hides plundered spoils even though God commanded them not to do so. This story has its "mirror image" in chapter 2. There, encouragement comes to the Israelites from a Canaanite woman who hides two Israeli spies.]
But the sons of Israel committed a transgression with the separated (consecrated) things. Achan, son of Carmi, son of Zimri, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took (stole) some of the devoted things, and the anger of the Lord (Yahweh) was kindled against the sons of Israel.
And he gathered his household man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was shown (taken, pointed out).
And Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan, the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the mantle, and the bar of gold, and his sons and his daughters, and his oxen and his asses and his sheep, and his tent and all that he had, and they brought them to the valley of Achor [meaning: "Valley of Trouble"].
Did not Achan, the son of Zerah, commit a transgression concerning the holy things, and wrath fell upon the whole congregation of Israel? And that man alone did not perish in his sin."
Tamar, his daughter-in-law, bore Judah Peresh and Zerah, so that Judah's sons were five in all.
The sons of Zerah were Shimri, Eitan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara, five in all.
of the children of Zerah, Jehuel and his brothers, 690,
Pethahiah, son of Meshezabel, of the sons of Zerah, son of Judah, was the king's right hand in all matters concerning the people.
Judah begot Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar [Judah's daughter-in-law involved in a complicated relationship history, see ],
Perez begot Hezron,
Hezron begot Ram,
