申命记 21:15-16 CUVS

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:15-18

The firstborn of the hated wife. The firstborn, in patriarchal and tribal societies, had recognized rights and honors, correlative with the duties and responsibilities which his position as prospective head of the household entailed on him. The principle is here asserted that individual preferences and partialities are not to be allowed to set aside the rights of the son who is lawfully the firstborn. Men would fain, sometimes, bend justice to their likings. Where an Israelite had two... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:16

He may not make ; literally, is not able to make ; i . e . is legally incapable of making. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 21:15-17

Moses did not originate the rights of primogeniture (compare Genesis 25:31), but recognized them, since he found them pre-existing in the general social system of the East. Paternal authority could set aside these rights on just grounds Genesis 27:33, but it is forbidden here to do so from mere partiality. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 21:15

Deuteronomy 21:15. If a man have two wives This practice, though tolerated, is not hereby made lawful; but only provision is made for the children in that case. Hated Comparatively, that is, less loved. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:1-23

Respect for human life (21:1-23)Murder made the land unclean, and the uncleanness could be removed only by the execution of the murderer (see Numbers 35:29-34). Where the murderer could not be found, the elders of the town nearest the place of the murder had to go to an unpolluted stream nearby and carry out the ritual slaughter of a young cow instead of the unknown murderer. The blood of the cow washed away in the stream symbolized the removal of uncleanness caused by the unlawful bloodshed... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 21:15

If . Compare 1 Samuel 1:2 . 2 Chronicles 24:3 read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 21:16

when. Hebrew in the day. See App-18 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Deuteronomy 21:15

THE INALIENABLE RIGHT OF THE FIRST-BORN"If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated: and if the first-born son be hers that was hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; then it shall be, in the day that he causeth his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved the first-born before the son of the hated who is the first-born: but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the hated, by giving him a double... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 21:15

Ver. 15. If a man have two wives— Moses here enacts, that where any Israelite had two wives, (for polygamy, contrary to the original institution of marriage, was suffered, but never enjoined) and when the man was partial in his affections towards them; such partiality should not hinder the right of eldership and inheritance in any of the children. If the son of the wife whom he least loved were his first, her male heir should inherit as his eldest son, according to ancient custom in that case.... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 21:15

15-17. If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated—In the original and all other translations, the words are rendered "have had," referring to events that have already taken place; and that the "had" has, by some mistake, been omitted in our version, seems highly probable from the other verbs being in the past tense—"hers that was hated," not "hers that is hated"; evidently intimating that she (the first wife) was dead at the time referred to. Moses, therefore, does not here... read more