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Once again she gave birth to a son and named him Shelah [may allude to the fact that the son was requested in prayer]. He [Judah] was in Cheziv when she gave birth to him. [Cheziv, from the verb kazav (to lie, to speak untruth), was a city in Judea, probably another name for Achzib/Chezeva, see Josh. 15:44; Mic. 1:14–15; 1 Chron. 4:22. The city is located 1 hour's walk north of Adullam, see verse 1. It is interesting that Judah is away in a city called "false" when his third son is born. The reader senses that family relations are not the best; the two eldest sons grow up and become evil in the eyes of the Lord, see verse 6, 10.]
After this, Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Remain a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up." He said (thinking to himself), "Otherwise, he will also die like his brothers." And Tamar went away and lived in her father's house.
And she took off her widow's clothes. And she covered herself with a veil. Yes, she wrapped herself up [so that she could not be recognized]. And she sat down by the gate of Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah, because [the reason Tamar did this was that] she had realized that Shelah had grown up, but she had not been given to him as a wife. [Enaim means the springs. Perhaps the same city referred to as Enam in Josh. 15:34]
Judah recognized them and said, "She is more righteous than I, because I did not give her my son Shelah." He did not sleep with her again (had no sexual relations with her).
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.
The sons of Judah were Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by the daughter of Shua, the Canaanite woman. But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord. Therefore, he killed him.
The sons of Shelah, the son of Judah, were Er, the father of Lechah, and Lada, the father of Mareshah, and the families of the linen workers, of the house of Ashbea,
