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17 Instead, he must acknowledge the firstborn of the unloved wife by giving him double of everything he owns, because he is really the first fruit of his father’s[a] strength. The right of the firstborn belongs to him.”

Death to a Rebellious Son

18 “If a man has a stubborn son who does not obey his parents,[b] and although they try to discipline him, he still refuses to pay attention to them, 19 then his parents[c] are to seize him and bring him before the elders at the gate of his city.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 21:17 The Heb. lacks father’s
  2. Deuteronomy 21:18 Lit. obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother
  3. Deuteronomy 21:19 Lit. his father and his mother