Deuteronomy 21:10–17

Female Captives

10 “When you go out to war against your enemies, and the Lord your God delivers them into your hand, and you take them captive, 11 and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and desire her and would take her for your gwife, 12 then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall hshave her head and trim her nails. 13 She shall put off the clothes of her captivity, remain in your house, and imourn her father and her mother a full month; after that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. 14 And it shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall set her free, but you certainly shall not sell her for money; you shall not treat her brutally, because you have jhumbled her.

Firstborn Inheritance Rights

15 “If a man has two wives, one loved kand the other unloved, and they have borne him children, both the loved and the unloved, and if the firstborn son is of her who is unloved, 16 then it shall be, lon the day he bequeaths his possessions to his sons, that he must not bestow firstborn status on the son of the loved wife in preference to the son of the unloved, the true firstborn. 17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the unloved wife as the firstborn mby giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he nis the beginning of his strength; othe right of the firstborn is his.