BRAGADAYJAH 139

Monday, April 6, 2015

BRAGADAYJAH 569

BRAGADAYJAH 569

A Man with Two Wives

If a man has two wives and one is loved and the other hated, and they have both borne him children, then if the firstborn son be of the hated wife, then when that man provides inheritance for his children, he shall not make the son of his beloved wife to inherit as his heir instead of the son who was indeed the firstborn. He shall acknowledge the son of the hated wife as the firstborn as indeed he is. And if a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father and his mother, and when they chasten him he will not listen, then they shall lay hold on him and take him unto he elders of the city, and lay a complaint to them against their son and the elders of the city shall stone him to death. And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death and he is hanged upon a tree, his body shall not remain all night on the tree that the land may not be defiled.

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