¹³and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month,^u then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife. ¹⁴If you are not pleased with her, let her go wherever she wishes. You must not sell her or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.^v

The Right of the Firstborn

¹⁵If a man has two wives,^w and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love,^x ¹⁶when he wills his property to his sons, he must not give the rights of the firstborn to the son of the wife he loves in preference to his actual firstborn, the son of the wife he does not love.^y ¹⁷He must acknowledge the son of his unloved wife as the firstborn by giving him a double^z share of all he has. That son is the first sign of his father’s strength.^a The right of the firstborn belongs to him.^b

A Rebellious Son

¹⁸If someone has a stubborn and rebellious^c son^d who does not obey his father and mother^e and will not listen to them when they discipline him, ¹⁹his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. ²⁰They shall say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” ²¹Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death.^f You must purge the evil^g from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.^h

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Cross references

u Ps 45:10
vSee Ge 34:2
wSee Ge 4:19
x Ge 29:33
y 1 Ch 26:10
z 2 Ki 2:9; Isa 40:2; 61:7; Zec 9:12
aSee Ge 49:3
b Ge 25:31; Lk 15:12
c Ps 78:8; Jer 5:23; Zep 3:1
d Pr 30:17
eSee Ge 31:35; Pr 1:8; Isa 30:1; Eph 6:1–3
fSee Lev 20:9
g Dt 19:19; 1 Co 5:13*
hSee Dt 13:11