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15 Law of the Firstborn.[a] If a man has two wives, and he loves one and dislikes the other, and they both bear him children, both the one who is loved and the one who is disliked, and the son of the one who is disliked is the firstborn, 16 then when he gives his inheritance to his sons, he is not to give the rights of the firstborn to the son of the woman he loves in preference to the true firstborn, the son of the woman he dislikes.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 21:15 While Scripture in no way condones polygamy, recognition of the firstborn’s rights of inheritance are here defined when a man has more than one wife and children from them.