1 And in the forty-fifth jubilee, in the second week, (and) in the second year, [2165 A.M.] Judah took for his first-born Er, a wife from the daughters of Aram, named Tamar. (JUB) 2 But he hated, and did not lie with her, because his mother was of the daughters of Canaan, and he wished to take him a wife of the kinsfolk of his mother, but Judah, his father, would not permit him. (JUB) 3 And this Er, the first-born of Judah, was wicked, and the Lord slew him. (JUB)
Book of Jubilees 41:1–3
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