Deuteronomy 21:10-17

New American Standard Bible

Domestic Relations

¹⁰ “When you go out to battle against your enemies, and ^(A)the Lord your God hands them over to you and you take them away captive, ¹¹ and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and are strongly attracted to her and would take her as a wife for yourself, ¹² then you shall bring her into your home, and she shall ^(B)shave her head and ^[a]trim her nails. ¹³ She shall also ^[b]remove the clothes of her captivity and shall remain in your house, and ^(C)weep for her father and mother a full month; and after that you may have relations with her and become her husband and she shall be your wife. ¹⁴ But it shall be, if you are not pleased with her, then you shall let her go ^[c]wherever she wishes; and you certainly shall not sell her for money, you shall not treat her as merchandise, since you have ^[d](D)humiliated her.

¹⁵ “If a man has two wives, the one loved and ^(E)the other ^[e]unloved, and both the loved and the ^[f]unloved have borne him sons, and the firstborn son belongs to the ^[g]unloved, ¹⁶ then it shall be on the day that he wills what he owns as an inheritance to his sons, he is not allowed to treat the son of the loved wife as the firstborn, ^[h]at the expense of the son of the ^[i]unloved, who actually is the firstborn son. ¹⁷ On the contrary, he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the ^[j]unloved wife, by giving him a double ^[k]portion of everything that ^[l]he owns, for he was the ^(F)beginning of his ^[m]strength; ^(G)to him belongs the right of the firstborn.