Judah's marriage with Alit the daughter of the noble
merchant Shua, which was consummated at Adullam, the
residence of his friend Hirah, or, as he was called later,
Hiram, king of Tyre, was not happy. His two oldest sons
died, and shortly thereafter his wife also. It was Judah's
punishment for having begun a good deed and left it unfinished,
for "he who begins a good deed, and does not execute
it to the end, brings down misfortune upon his own head."
Judah had rescued Joseph from death, but it was his suggestion
to sell him into slavery. Had he urged them to
restore the lad to his father, his brethren would have obeyed
his words. He was lacking in constancy to persist until he
had completed the work of Joseph's deliverance, which he
had begun.[95]

In the same year, the year of Joseph's misfortune, all his
other brethren married, too. Reuben's wife was named
Elyoram, the daughter of the Canaanite Uzzi of Timnah.
Simon married his sister Dinah first, and then a second wife.
When Simon and Levi massacred the men of Shechem, Dinah
refused to leave the city and follow her brethren, saying,
"Whither shall I carry my shame?" But Simon swore he
would marry her, as he did later, and when she died in
Egypt, he took her body to the Holy Land and buried it
there. Dinah bore her brother a son,[96] and from her union
with Shechem, the son of Hamor, sprang a daughter, Asenath
by name, afterward the wife of Joseph. When this daughter
was born to Dinah, her brethren, the sons of Jacob,
wanted to kill her, that the finger of men might not point at
the fruit of sin in their father's house. But Jacob took a