When he drew back his hand, his brother came out. She said: So this is how you have broken out! He was named Perez.

The sons of Judah were Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah. (Er and Onan died in Canaan.) The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

The families descended from Judah were the family of Shelah, the family of Perez, and the family of Zerah. The descendants of Perez were the family of Hezron and the family of Hamul.

May your family be like the family of Perez, the son whom Tamar gave to Judah, from the offspring that Jehovah may give you by this young woman.

Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron.

He was a descendant of Perez, and he was head of all of the army's officers for the first month.

Other people of the children of Judah and of Benjamin lived in Jerusalem. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah, the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of Perez;

All the sons of Perez living in Jerusalem were four hundred and sixty-eight men of good position.

Judah and Tamar were the father and mother of Perez and Zerah. Perez was the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Ram,

the son of Amminadab, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,