So Judah left his brothers to visit Hirah the Adullamite. Evidently they were friends, as we will see in verse 12 and in verse 20. As we mentioned last week, Jesus was a friend to sinners, but he never got too close. Outside of Judas, He never allowed an outside influence close. Jesus was here to do the Fathers will, and for the most part, he only ministered to the Jews. Judah, however got close to the Canaanites, and through his friendship with Hirah, he meets Shua, a Canaanite woman, and then marries her. We know that this was probably not with the approval of Jacob. He was told specifically not to marry any woman from Canaan, and we know that Esau’s first two wives were a sore spot to Isaac and Rebekah.