Deuteronomy:21:15-17
geneva@Deuteronomy:21:15 @ If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another (note:)This declares that the plurality of wives came from a corrupt affection.(:note) hated, and they have born him children, [both] the beloved and the hated; and [if] the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
geneva@Deuteronomy:21:16 @ Then when the time commeth, that hee appointeth his sonnes to be heires of that which he hath, he may not make the sonne of the beloued first borne before the sonne of the hated, which is the first borne:
geneva@Deuteronomy:21:17 @ But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated [for] the firstborn, by giving him a (note:)As much as to two of the others.(:note) double portion of all that he hath: for he [is] the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn [is] Unless he is unworthy, as Reuben, Jacob's son, was. his.
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