#Deuteronomy
#Firstborn
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The Text Readings (formerly known as “Day Texts”) are usually anywhere from 15-60 minutes. This show involves the translation and meaning of Deuteronomy 21:15-17.

Here we read about how we can determine who gets “the right of being firstborn” when a man has two women and a son by each one. The answer given explains the meaning of “firstborn” according to Deuteronomy, which also has significant implications for the New Testament’s description of Jesus as God’s “firstborn,” even as the “firstborn of all creation” (Hebrews 1:6; Colossians 1:15). Translations are from the Hebrew (H) and Greek (G) texts.

(H) 21:15 When a man happens to have two wives, one who is loved and one who is loved much less [or, "one who is an enemy"], and they have both (the wife who is loved and the wife who is loved much less) have born him sons, and if it has come about that the firstborn son is from the wife who is loved much less,
(H) 21:16 then when it has come to be time [or, "the day"] for the son to inherit what things will belong to him, it cannot belong to the firstborn son of the wife who is loved in preference to the real firstborn, the son of the wife who is loved less.
(H) 21:17 Because the real firstborn, the son of the wife who is loved less, he should set apart to give a double portion in everything which he finds for himself, since the real firstborn is the beginning [resheet] of his reproductive power. Judgment of the right of being firstborn belongs to him.

(G) 21:15 Now if ever there should come to be two wives for a man, one of whom he has been loving and one of whom he dislikes, and if children are born to him by the one he has been loving and by the one whom he now dislikes, and if the son of the one whom he dislikes is firstborn,
(G) 21:16 then whenever the day arrives that he may distribute his property to his sons he will not be able to treat as firstborn [prōtotokeu'ō] the son of the wife whom he has been loving, thereby overlooking the son of the wife whom he now dislikes, the real firstborn.
(G) 21:17 Rather, the firstborn son of the wife who is disliked will be recognized, so as to give to him twice as much from all things which his father might obtain for himself, because the real firstborn is the beginning [archē] of his children. So to this one the birthright is fitting.

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