Deuteronomy 21:15

Webster's Bible (1833)

If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers who was hated;

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  • Gen 29:33 : 33 She conceived again, and bare a son, and said, "Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also." She named him Simeon.
  • 1 Sam 1:4-5 : 4 When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions: 5 but to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.
  • Gen 29:18 : 18 Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."
  • Gen 29:20 : 20 Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
  • Gen 29:30-31 : 30 He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. 31 Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

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    16then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn:

    17but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.

    18If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them;

  • Deut 22:13-14
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    13If any man take a wife, and go in to her, and hate her,

    14and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name on her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn't find in her the tokens of virginity;

  • Exod 21:7-11
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    7"If a man sells his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.

    8If she doesn't please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, seeing he has dealt deceitfully with her.

    9If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

    10If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

    11If he doesn't do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

  • Exod 21:3-5
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    3If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.

    4If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

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  • Deut 24:1-3
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    1When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

    2When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife].

    3If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;

  • Matt 22:25-26
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    25Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother.

    26In like manner the second also, and the third, to the seventh.

  • Deut 21:14
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    14It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.

  • Luke 20:29-30
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    29There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless.

    30The second took her as wife, and he died childless.

  • Deut 25:5-7
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    5If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

    6It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.

    7If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.

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    21"'If a man takes his brother's wife, it is an impurity: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

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  • Mark 12:20-21
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    20There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.

    21The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise;

  • Deut 22:16
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    16and the young lady's father shall tell the elders, I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her;

  • Ezek 23:2
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    2Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:

  • Prov 30:23
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    23For an unloved woman when she is married; And a handmaid who is heir to her mistress.

  • 2 Sam 14:6-7
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    6Your handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.

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    10Then let my wife grind for another, And let others sleep with her.

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    54The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;

  • Judg 15:2
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    2Her father said, I most assuredly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion: isn't her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her, instead.

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    30You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the fruit of it.

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    24and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

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    56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

  • Num 27:9-10
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    9If he have no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.

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