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Deuteronomy 21:13–21

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13remove the clothes she was wearing when she was taken prisoner, live in your house, and mourn for her father and mother a full month. After that, you may have sexual relations with her and be her husband, and she will be your wife. 14Then if you are not satisfied with her, you are to let her go where she wants, but you must not sell her for money or treat her as merchandise, jbecause you have humiliated her.

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, 16when 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. 17He must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved wife, by giving him two shares klof his estate, for he is the firstfruits of his virility; he has the rights of the firstborn. m

A Rebellious Son

18“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or mother and doesn’t listen to them even after they discipline him, 19his father and mother must take hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate nof his hometown. 20They will say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he doesn’t obey us. He’s a glutton and a drunkard.’ 21Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. oYou must purge the evil from you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.

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Footnotes

  1. j21:14 Hb obscure
  2. k21:17 mouth of two, or two mouthfuls
  3. l21:17 Or two-thirds; the two-thirds interpretation holds that the firstborn son receives two-thirds of the total estate no matter how many sons are in the family.

Cross references

  1. m21:15–17 Gn 29:30–33; 49:3
  2. n21:19 Dt 17:8; 22:15; 25:7
  3. o21:21 Ex 21:17; Lv 20:9