15If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
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And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon.
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions: …
And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-17)This law restrains men from disinheriting their eldest sons out of mere caprice, and without just provocation. I. The case here put (Deut. 21:15) is very instructive. 1. It shows the great mischief of having more wives than one, which the law of Moses did not restrain, probably in hopes that men’s own experience of the great inconvenience of it in families would at last put an end to it and make t…
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