Deuteronomy 21:15

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`When a man hath two wives, the one loved and the other hated, and they have borne to him sons (the loved one and the hated one), and the first-born son hath been to the hated one;

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  • Gen 29:33 : 33 And she conceiveth again, and beareth a son, and saith, `Because Jehovah hath heard that I `am' the hated one, He also giveth to me even this `one';' and she calleth his name Simeon.
  • 1 Sam 1:4-5 : 4 And the day cometh, and Elkanah sacrificeth, and he hath given to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions, 5 and to Hannah he giveth a certain portion -- double, for he hath loved Hannah, and Jehovah hath shut her womb;
  • Gen 29:18 : 18 And Jacob loveth Rachel, and saith, `I serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter:'
  • Gen 29:20 : 20 and Jacob serveth for Rachel seven years; and they are in his eyes as some days, because of his loving her.
  • Gen 29:30-31 : 30 And he goeth in also unto Rachel, and he also loveth Rachel more than Leah; and he serveth with him yet seven other years. 31 And Jehovah seeth that Leah `is' the hated one, and He openeth her womb, and Rachel `is' barren;

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  • Deut 21:16-18
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    16 then it hath been, in the day of his causing his sons to inherit that which he hath, he is not able to declare first-born the son of the loved one, in the face of the son of the hated one -- the first-born.

    17 But the first-born, son of the hated one, he doth acknowledge, to give to him a double portion of all that is found with him, for he `is' the beginning of his strength; to him `is' the right of the first-born.

    18 `When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious -- he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them --

  • Deut 22:13-14
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    13 `When a man taketh a wife, and hath gone in unto her, and hated her,

    14 and laid against her actions of words, and brought out against her an evil name, and said, This woman I have taken, and I draw near unto her, and I have not found in her tokens of virginity:

  • Exod 21:7-11
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    7 `And when a man selleth his daughter for a handmaid, she doth not go out according to the going out of the men-servants;

    8 if evil in the eyes of her lord, so that he hath not betrothed her, then he hath let her be ransomed; to a strange people he hath not power to sell her, in his dealing treacherously with her.

    9 `And if to his son he betroth her, according to the right of daughters he doth to her.

    10 `If another `woman' he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw;

    11 and if these three he do not to her, then she hath gone out for nought, without money.

  • Exod 21:3-5
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    3 if by himself he cometh in, by himself he goeth out; if he `is' owner of a wife, then his wife hath gone out with him;

    4 if his lord give to him a wife, and she hath borne to him sons or daughters -- the wife and her children are her lord's, and he goeth out by himself.

    5 `And if the servant really say: I have loved my lord, my wife, and my sons -- I do not go out free;

  • Deut 24:1-3
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    1 `When a man doth take a wife, and hath married her, and it hath been, if she doth not find grace in his eyes (for he hath found in her nakedness of anything), and he hath written for her a writing of divorce, and given `it' into her hand, and sent her out of his house,

    2 and she hath gone out of his house, and hath gone and been another man's,

    3 and the latter man hath hated her, and written for her a writing of divorce, and given `it' into her hand, and sent her out of his house, or when the latter man dieth, who hath taken her to himself for a wife:

  • Matt 22:25-26
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    25 `And there were with us seven brothers, and the first having married did die, and not having seed, he left his wife to his brother;

    26 in like manner also the second, and the third, unto the seventh,

  • Deut 21:14
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    14 `And it hath been -- if thou hast not delighted in her, that thou hast sent her away at her desire, and thou dost not at all sell her for money; thou dost not tyrannize over her, because that thou hast humbled her.

  • Luke 20:29-30
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    29 `There were, then, seven brothers, and the first having taken a wife, died childless,

    30 and the second took the wife, and he died childless,

  • Deut 25:5-7
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    5 `When brethren dwell together, and one of them hath died, and hath no son, the wife of the dead is not without to a strange man; her husband's brother doth go in unto her, and hath taken her to him for a wife, and doth perform the duty of her husband's brother;

    6 and it hath been, the first-born which she beareth doth rise for the name of his dead brother, and his name is not wiped away out of Israel.

    7 `And if the man doth not delight to take his brother's wife, then hath his brother's wife gone up to the gate, unto the elders, and said, My husband's brother is refusing to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he hath not been willing to perform the duty of my husband's brother;

  • Lev 20:21
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    21 `And a man who taketh his brother's wife -- it `is' impurity; the nakedness of his brother he hath uncovered; childless they are.

  • Lev 20:14
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    14 `And a man who taketh the woman and her mother -- it `is' wickedness; with fire they burn him and them, and there is no wickedness in your midst.

  • Mark 12:20-21
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    20 `There were then seven brothers, and the first took a wife, and dying, he left no seed;

    21 and the second took her, and died, neither left he seed, and the third in like manner,

  • Deut 22:16
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    16 and the father of the damsel hath said unto the elders, My daughter I have given to this man for a wife, and he doth hate her;

  • Ezek 23:2
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    2 Two women were daughters of one mother,

  • Prov 30:23
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    23 For a hated one when she ruleth, And a maid-servant when she succeedeth her mistress.

  • 2 Sam 14:6-7
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    6 and thy maid-servant hath two sons; and they strive both of them in a field, and there is no deliverer between them, and the one smiteth the other, and putteth him to death;

    7 and lo, the whole family hath risen against thy maid-servant, and say, Give up him who smiteth his brother, and we put him to death for the life of his brother whom he hath slain, and we destroy also the heir; and they have quenched my coal which is left -- so as not to set to my husband a name and remnant on the face of the ground.'

  • Job 31:10
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    10 Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend.

  • Deut 28:54
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    54 `The man who is tender in thee, and who `is' very delicate -- his eye is evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his sons whom he leaveth,

  • Judg 15:2
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    2 and her father saith, I certainly said, that thou didst certainly hate her, and I give her to thy companion; is not her sister -- the young one -- better than she? Let her be, I pray thee, to thee, instead of her.'

  • Deut 28:30
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    30 `A woman thou dost betroth, and another man doth lie with her; a house thou dost build, and dost not dwell in it; a vineyard thou dost plant, and dost not make it common;

  • Exod 22:24
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    24 and Mine anger hath burned, and I have slain you by the sword, and your wives have been widows, and your sons orphans.

  • Deut 28:56
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    56 `The tender woman in thee, and the delicate, who hath not tried the sole of her foot to place on the ground because of delicateness and because of tenderness -- her eye is evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter,

  • Num 27:9-10
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    9 and if he have no daughter, then ye have given his inheritance to his brethren;

    10 and if he have no brethren, then ye have given his inheritance to his father's brethren;

  • Gen 29:31
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    31 And Jehovah seeth that Leah `is' the hated one, and He openeth her womb, and Rachel `is' barren;

  • Deut 21:11
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    11 and hast seen in the captivity a woman of fair form, and hast delighted in her, and hast taken to thee for a wife,

  • Num 5:20
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    20 and thou, if thou hast turned aside under thy husband, and if thou hast been defiled, and any man doth give his copulation to thee besides thy husband --

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    31 whether it gore a son or gore a daughter, according to this judgment it is done to him.

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    22 and it hath been, when their fathers or their brethren come in to plead unto us, that we have said unto them, Favour us `by' them, for we have not taken `to' each his wife in battle, for ye -- ye have not given to them at this time `that' ye are guilty.'

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    2 Thou dost not take to thee a wife, Nor hast thou sons and daughters in this place.