Person
Shuah
father of Judah's Canaanite wife
The Canaanite father of the unnamed woman whom Judah married, as recounted in Genesis 38.
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Shuah was a man whose unnamed daughter became the wife of , son of . Their union is recounted in Genesis 38, where Judah sees Shuah's daughter while he is away from his brothers and takes her as his wife. She bore him three sons: Er, , and . The narrative of Genesis 38 centers chiefly on those sons and on Tamar, but Shuah stands as the Canaanite father-in-law through whom Judah contracted this notable marriage.
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