Deuteronomy 21
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Deuteronomy 21:15-21

15If a man has two wives, and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love,

16when he wills his property to his sons, he must not give the rights of the firstborn to the son of the wife he loves in preference to his actual firstborn, the son of the wife he does not love.

17He must acknowledge the son of his unloved wife as the firstborn by giving him a double share of all he has. That son is the first sign of his father’s strength. The right of the firstborn belongs to him.

18If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him,

19his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town.

20They shall say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

21Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.

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