Gilead’s wife also bore him sons, and when they were grown up, they drove Jephthah away. “You are not going to get any inheritance in our family,” they said, “because you are the son of another woman.”

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And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.

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30 But what does Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 4:30 Gen. 21:10

30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.

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24 keeping you from your neighbor’s wife,
    from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.(A)

25 Do not lust in your heart after her beauty
    or let her captivate you with her eyes.

26 For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread,
    but another man’s wife preys on your very life.(B)

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24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

26 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life.

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20 Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife?
    Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?

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20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

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For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey,
    and her speech is smoother than oil;(A)

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For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

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16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,(A)
    from the wayward woman with her seductive words,

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16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

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No one born of a forbidden marriage[a] nor any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 23:2 Or one of illegitimate birth

A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord.

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Abram in Egypt(A)

10 Now there was a famine in the land,(B) and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.(C)

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10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

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