Deuteronomy 21:14-16
1599 Geneva Bible
14 And if thou have no favor unto her, then thou mayest let her go whither she will, but thou shalt not sell her for money, nor make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.
15 ¶ If a man have two wives, one loved and another [a]hated, and they have born him children, both the loved and also the hated: if the firstborn be the son of the hated,
16 Then when the time cometh, that he appointeth his sons to be heirs of that which he hath, he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn [b]before the son of the hated, which is the firstborn:
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- Deuteronomy 21:15 This declareth that the plurality of wives came of a corrupt affection.
- Deuteronomy 21:16 Or, while the son of the hated liveth.
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