Genesis 38:7
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7 But Er, Judah’s firstborn, greatly offended the Lord; so the Lord took his life.(A)
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Genesis 38:10
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10 What he did greatly offended the Lord, and the Lord took his life too.
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Genesis 46:12
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12 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah—but Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan; and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.(A)
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1 Chronicles 2:3
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Judah. 3 The sons of Judah[a] were: Er, Onan, and Shelah; these three Bathshua, a Canaanite woman, bore to him. But Judah’s firstborn, Er, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, so he took his life.(A)
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- 2:3–4:23 The Chronicler had two reasons for placing his genealogy of the tribe of Judah before those of the other tribes, and for making it longer than all the others: his interest in David, who was of the tribe of Judah; and the prominence of descendants of that tribe among the Jews of the Chronicler’s time.
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