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

⁵ “When brothers live together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. ^(A)Her husband’s brother shall have relations with her and take her to himself as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.