saw there a daughter of a certaine Canaanite] He was but a raw youth about fourteene yeares old, and he tooke a wife by sense, not by reason, or religion; for both would have directed him to have made his choyce by his fathers advice, who would never have consented to match an Israelite with a Canaanite; such mixed marriages of the blessed and accursed seed being forbidden, first by his grandfather, Genesis 24:3. and after by his father, Genesis 28:1. whose name was Shuah] This was not the name of Judahs wife, but of her father, as the Hebrew Text importeth by the Gender, and as it plainly appeareth, vers. 12.