DEUTERONOMY 21:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,”
Then on the day when he wills his possessions to his sons, he is not permitted to treat the son of the loved wife as the firstborn in preference to the son of the unloved wife, who is the firstborn — the legal protection (lo yuchal) of the actual firstborn prevents the father from privileging the loved wife's son; the biological and covenantal fact of firstborn status cannot be altered by parental emotion.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
Publish a note on this verse
0/2000
No notes on this verse yet. Be the first to write one!