Deuteronomy 21:15

New American Bible - revised edition

If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and if both the loved and the unloved bear him sons, but the firstborn is the son of the unloved wife:

Cross References

Genesis 29:18

Because Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

Genesis 29:20

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet they seemed to him like a few days because of his love for her.

Genesis 29:33

She conceived again and bore a son, and said, “It means, ‘The Lord heard that I was unloved,’ and therefore he has given me this one also”; so she named him Simeon.

2 Chronicles 11:22

Rehoboam put Abijah, son of Maacah, first among his brothers, as leader, for he intended to make him king.

Deuteronomy 21:16

when he comes to bequeath his property to his sons he may not consider as his firstborn the son of the wife he loves, in preference to the son of the wife he does not love, the firstborn.

1 Samuel 1:2

He had two wives, one named Hannah, the other Peninnah; Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.