Ya`akov loved Rachel. He said, *I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.*
Deuteronomy 21:15 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) 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; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 her's that was hated: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If a man has two wives, one loved and the other disliked, and they both have borne him children, and if the firstborn son is the son of the one who is disliked, American Standard Version (1901) 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 first-born son be hers that was hated; Common English Bible Now suppose a man has two wives—one of them loved and the other unloved. Both wives bear children, but the oldest male is the unloved wife’s child. Catholic Public Domain Version If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other hated, and they have produced children by him, and if the son of the hated wife is the firstborn, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If 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: |
Ya`akov loved Rachel. He said, *I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.*
Ya`akov served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
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.
Rechav`am appointed Aviyah the son of Ma`akhah to be chief, [even] the prince among his brothers; for [he was minded] to make him king.
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:
and he had two wives; the name of the one was Channah, and the name of other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Channah had no children.