If 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;
She conceived again, and bare a son, and said, *Because the LORD has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also.* She named him Shim`on.
then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn: