15If a man has two wives, 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,


In Context

12 Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails

13 and 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, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.

14 If 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.

15 If a man has two wives, 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,

16 when 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.

17 He must acknowledge the son of his unloved wife as the firstborn by giving him a double share of all he has. That son is the first sign of his father's strength. The right of the firstborn belongs to him.

Deuteronomy 21:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:15If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, [both] the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:15If a man have two wives, one beloved, and the other hated, and they have had children by him, and the son of the hated be the firstborn,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:15If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:15If a man have two wives, one beloved, and one hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated, and the firstborn son be hers that was hated;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:15If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:15If a man shall have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:15If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers who was hated;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:15'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;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:15If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated: