Jacob’s Children

³¹ When the Lord saw that Leah was not loved,^(A) he enabled her to conceive,^(B) but Rachel remained childless.

The Right of the Firstborn

¹⁵ If a man has two wives,^(A) 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,^{(B) 16} when 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.^{(C) 17} He must acknowledge the son of his unloved wife as the firstborn by giving him a double^(D) share of all he has. That son is the first sign of his father’s strength.^(E) The right of the firstborn belongs to him.^(F)

Marriage Violations

¹³ If a man takes a wife and, after sleeping with her^(A), dislikes her

¹⁶ Her father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her.

² “I was so sure you hated her,” he said, “that I gave her to your companion.^(A) Isn’t her younger sister more attractive? Take her instead.”