Deuteronomy - 21:15 Meaning
“If 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:”
King James Version (KJV)
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
21:15-17 This law restrains men from disinheriting their eldest sons without just cause. The principle in this case as to children, is still binding to parents; they must give children their right without partiality.
“Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.”
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