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35 Then she became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She said, “This time I will praise the Lord”; so she named him Judah.[a] Then she stopped having children.

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  1. Genesis 29:35 This name sounds like the Hebrew for “praise.”

19-21 The tribe of Judah: the clans of Shelah, Perez, Zerah, Hezron, and Hamul. (Two of Judah's sons, Er and Onan, had died in the land of Canaan.)

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Judah had five sons in all. By his wife Bathshua, a Canaanite, he had three sons: Er, Onan, and Shelah. His oldest son, Er, was so evil that the Lord killed him. By his daughter-in-law Tamar, Judah had two more sons, Perez and Zerah.

Perez had two sons, Hezron and Hamul. His brother Zerah had five sons: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Darda.

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