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;


In Context

12 then thou hast brought her in unto the midst of thy household, and she hath shaved her head, and prepared her nails,

13 and turned aside the raiment of her captivity from off her, and hath dwelt in thy house, and bewailed her father and her mother a month of days, and afterwards thou dost go in unto her and hast married her, and she hath been to thee for a wife:

14 And it hath been — if thou hast not delighted in her, that thou hast sent her away at her desire, and thou dost not at all sell her for money; thou dost not tyrannize over her, because that thou hast humbled her.

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;

16 then it hath been, in the day of his causing his sons to inherit that which he hath, he is not able to declare first-born the son of the loved one, in the face of the son of the hated one — the first-born.

17 But the first-born, son of the hated one, he doth acknowledge, to give to him a double portion of all that is found with him, for he is the beginning of his strength; to him is the right of the first-born.

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

21:15If 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,

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 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: