Genesis xxxviii. 1, 2, 3, 4, &c.IV. SHUAH, the Daughter of Hirah the Adullamite, and Wife to the Patriarch Judah. She was Mother of Er, Onan, and Shelah. The Jews have a Tradition, that Shuah inspired into her Sons the detestable Resolution, of preventing Tamar to become a Mother by them. See the Articles TAMAR and ER. The Testament of the twelve Patriarchs calls this Woman Bathshuah, Daughter of Barshan, King of Adullam. She could not endure Tamar, because she was an Aramean, and not a Canaanite as she was. When Judah knew that Shuah had prevailed with her Son Shelah to marry a Canaanitish Woman, he gave her his Curse, and she fell down dead, as a Punishment for the Wickedness in which she had involved her three Sons.
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