Tamar Facts for 3-8 Year Olds

Tamar’s story can be found in Genesis 38.
She marries Er, the oldest son of Judah.
Er’s name means “evil in the sight of the Lord.”
The Lord “puts him to death.”
Judah tells his second son, Onan, to have a Levirate marriage with Tamar.
Onan doesn’t want to do this.
He spills his seed, and Tamar cannot get pregnant.
“The Lord put him to death also.”
Judah worries about his third son, Shelah, because he thinks Tamar must have had something to do with the death of his first two sons.
He sends Tamar back to her father’s house.
When Shelah is old enough, Judah does not give him to Tamar.
Tamar wants a baby.
She sits alongside the road covered with a veil.
Judah offers to pay her with a goat, but she asks for his “seal and cord and staff” as a pledge until the goat arrives.
He agrees, and she gets pregnant.
Judah is angry, but Tamar tells him the pledge items belong to the father of her child.
Judah knows it’s his child.
Judah is sorry.
He says she is innocent.
She gives birth to twin sons, Perez and Zerah.
Perez will be the founder of Judah’s kings, including King David and the Messiah.
Tamar is one of the four women mentioned in Matthew’s official genealogy of Jesus.