⁷ and Er, Judah's first-born, is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth put him to death.

² and Joab sendeth to Tekoah, and taketh thence a wise woman, and saith unto her, `Feign thyself a mourner, I pray thee, and put on, I pray thee, garments of mourning, and anoint not thyself with oil, and thou hast been as a woman these many days mourning for the dead,