Deuteronomy 21:15

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Laws Concerning Children Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and they both bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.

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  • Gen 29:33 : 33 She became pregnant again and had another son. She said,“Because the LORD heard that I was unloved, he gave me this one too.” So she named him Simeon.
  • 1 Sam 1:4-5 : 4 The day came and Elkanah sacrificed.(Now he used to give meat portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters. 5 But to Hannah he would give a double portion, because he loved Hannah, although the LORD had not enabled her to have children.
  • Gen 29:18 : 18 Since Jacob had fallen in love with Rachel, he said,“I’ll serve you seven years in exchange for your younger daughter Rachel.”
  • Gen 29:20 : 20 So Jacob worked for seven years to acquire Rachel. But they seemed like only a few days to him because his love for her was so great.
  • Gen 29:30-31 : 30 Jacob slept with Rachel as well. He also loved Rachel more than Leah. Then he worked for Laban for seven more years. 31 The Family of Jacob When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to become pregnant while Rachel remained childless.

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    16In the day he divides his inheritance he must not appoint as firstborn the son of the favorite wife in place of the other wife’s son who is actually the firstborn.

    17Rather, he must acknowledge the son of the less loved wife as firstborn and give him the double portion of all he has, for that son is the beginning of his father’s procreative power– to him should go the right of the firstborn.

    18If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,

  • Deut 22:13-14
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    13Purity in the Marriage Relationship Suppose a man marries a woman, sleeps with her, and then rejects her,

    14accusing her of impropriety and defaming her reputation by saying,“I married this woman but when I approached her for marital relations I discovered she was not a virgin!”

  • Exod 21:7-11
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    7“If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do.

    8If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has dealt deceitfully with her.

    9If he designated her for his son, then he will deal with her according to the customary rights of daughters.

    10If he takes another wife, he must not diminish the first one’s food, her clothing, or her marital rights.

    11If he does not provide her with these three things, then she will go out free, without paying money.

  • Exod 21:3-5
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    3If he came in by himself he will go out by himself; if he had a wife when he came in, then his wife will go out with him.

    4If his master gave him a wife, and she bore sons or daughters, the wife and the children will belong to her master, and he will go out by himself.

    5But if the servant should declare,‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’

  • Deut 24:1-3
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    1If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something indecent in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.

    2When she has left him she may go and become someone else’s wife.

    3If the second husband rejects her and then divorces her, gives her the papers, and evicts her from his house, or if the second husband who married her dies,

  • Matt 22:25-26
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    25Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children he left his wife to his brother.

    26The second did the same, and the third, down to the seventh.

  • Deut 21:14
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    14If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell her; you must not take advantage of her, since you have already humiliated her.

  • Luke 20:29-30
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    29Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died without children.

    30The second

  • Deut 25:5-7
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    5Respect for the Sanctity of Others If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man’s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband’s brother must go to her, marry her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.

    6Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.

    7But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, then she must go to the elders at the town gate and say,“My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel; he is unwilling to perform the duty of a brother-in-law to me!”

  • Lev 20:21
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    21If a man has marital relations with his brother’s wife, it is indecency. He has exposed his brother’s nakedness; they will be childless.

  • Lev 20:14
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    14If a man has marital relations with both a woman and her mother, it is lewdness. Both he and they must be burned to death, so there is no lewdness in your midst.

  • Mark 12:20-21
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    20There were seven brothers. The first one married, and when he died he had no children.

    21The second married her and died without any children, and likewise the third.

  • Deut 22:16
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    16The young woman’s father must say to the elders,“I gave my daughter to this man and he has rejected her.

  • Ezek 23:2
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    2“Son of man, there were two women who were daughters of the same mother.

  • Prov 30:23
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    23under an unloved woman who becomes married, and under a female servant who dispossesses her mistress.

  • 2 Sam 14:6-7
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    6Your servant has two sons. When the two of them got into a fight in the field, there was no one present who could intervene. One of them struck the other and killed him.

    7Now the entire family has risen up against your servant, saying,‘Turn over the one who struck down his brother, so that we can execute him and avenge the death of his brother whom he killed. In so doing we will also destroy the heir.’ They want to extinguish my remaining coal, leaving no one on the face of the earth to carry on the name of my husband.”

  • Job 31:10
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    10then let my wife turn the millstone for another man, and may other men commit adultery with her.

  • Deut 28:54
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    54The man among you who is by nature tender and sensitive will turn against his brother, his beloved wife, and his remaining children.

  • Judg 15:2
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    2Her father said,“I really thought you absolutely despised her, so I gave her to your best man. Her younger sister is more attractive than she is. Take her instead!”

  • Deut 28:30
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    30You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

  • Exod 22:24
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    24and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.

  • Deut 28:56
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    56Likewise, the most tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness, will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters,

  • Num 27:9-10
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    9and if he has no daughter, then you are to give his inheritance to his brothers;

    10and if he has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his father’s brothers;

  • Gen 29:31
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    31The Family of Jacob When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to become pregnant while Rachel remained childless.

  • Deut 21:11
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    11if you should see among them an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife,

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    20But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you….”

  • Exod 21:31
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    31If the ox gores a son or a daughter, the owner will be dealt with according to this rule.

  • Judg 21:22
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    22When their fathers or brothers come and protest to us, we’ll say to them,“Do us a favor and let them be, for we could not get each one a wife through battle. Don’t worry about breaking your oath! You would only be guilty if you had voluntarily given them wives.’”

  • Num 5:29
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    29“‘This is the law for cases of jealousy, when a wife, while under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself,

  • Num 5:13
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    13and a man goes to bed with her, for sexual relations, without her husband knowing it, and it is hidden that she has defiled herself, since there was no witness against her, nor was she caught–

  • Lev 18:18
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    18You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife while she is still alive, to have sexual relations with her.

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