申命记 21:16

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

到了他把所有的產業分給兒子承受的日子，他不可把他喜愛的妻子的兒子立為長子，排在他不喜愛的妻子的兒子以上，他才是長子；

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
到 了 把 产 业 分 给 儿 子 承 受 的 时 候 ， 不 可 将 所 爱 之 妻 生 的 儿 子 立 为 长 子 ， 在 所 恶 之 妻 生 的 儿 子 以 上 ，

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ A man might have two wives, one he loves and one he doesn't. Both wives might have sons by him. If the older son belongs to the wife he does not love, ¹⁶ when that man wills his property to his sons he must not give the son of the wife he loves what belongs to the older son, the son of the wife he does not love. ¹⁷ He must agree to give the older son two shares of everything he owns, even though the older son is from the wife he does not love. That son was the first to prove his father could have children, so he has the rights that belong to the older son.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Chronicles 5:2, 1 Chronicles 26:10, 2 Chronicles 11:19-22, 2 Chronicles 21:3, Romans 8:29, Philippians 4:8, Hebrews 12:16, Hebrews 12:17

Reciprocal: Proverbs 19:14 - the inheritance Malachi 1:3 - hated Luke 15:12 - give

Cross-References

Genesis 27:38
But Esau continued, "Do you have only one blessing, Father? Bless me, too, Father!" Then Esau began to cry out loud.

Genesis 29:11
Then Jacob kissed Rachel and cried.

Genesis 44:34
I cannot go back to my father if the boy is not with me. I couldn't stand to see my father that sad."

Judges 2:4
After the angel gave Israel this message from the Lord , they cried loudly.

Ruth 1:9
May the Lord give you another happy home and a new husband." When Naomi kissed the women good-bye, they began to cry out loud.

1 Samuel 24:16
When David finished saying these words, Saul asked, "Is that your voice, David my son?" And he cried loudly.

1 Samuel 30:4
Then David and his army cried loudly until they were too weak to cry anymore.

1 Kings 3:26
The real mother of the living child was full of love for her son. So she said to the king, "Please, my master, don't kill him! Give the baby to her!" But the other woman said, "Neither of us will have him. Cut him into two pieces!"

Esther 8:6
I could not stand to see that terrible thing happen to my people. I could not stand to see my family killed."

Isaiah 49:15
The Lord answers, "Can a woman forget the baby she nurses? Can she feel no kindness for the child to which she gave birth? Even if she could forget her children, I will not forget you.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath,.... By a will in writing, or byword of mouth, or by a deed of gift, actually bestowing his goods upon them, and dividing among them what he is for the present possessed of; see Luke 15:12,

that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, [which is] indeed the firstborn; that is, when such is the case, that the son of his wife he has the least value for is really his firstborn, he may not, through favour and affection to the wife he loves better, prefer her son, and declare him to be the firstborn, by devising to him or bestowing on him the double portion of his goods; for so to do would not be right, or agreeably to the will and law of God; for though previous to this law the birthright was given to Joseph, the eldest son of Rachel, the most beloved wife of Jacob, before Reuben who was the son of Leah, less beloved by him, and was in fact his firstborn; yet this was owing to the sin of Reuben, and by the appointment of God; see Genesis 49:3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Moses did not originate the rights of primogeniture (compare Genesis 25:31), but recognized them, since he found them pre-existing in the general social system of the East. Paternal authority could set aside these rights on just grounds Genesis 27:33, but it is forbidden here to do so from mere partiality.