28 Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for wild game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.(A)

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The Right of the Firstborn

15 “If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved bear him sons, and if the unloved wife has the firstborn son, 16 when that man gives what he has to his sons as an inheritance, he is not to show favoritism to the son of the loved wife as his firstborn over the firstborn of the unloved wife.

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Violations of Proper Sexual Conduct

13 “If a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and comes to hate her,

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and the second man hates her, writes her a divorce certificate, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house or if he[a] dies,

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 24:3 Lit if the second man who has taken her as his wife

26 “If anyone comes to Me(A) and does not hate(B) his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, and even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

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13 No(A) household slave can be the slave of two masters, since either he will hate(B) one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t be slaves to both God and money.”

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