Study it in the app“If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other hated, and they have borne him sons, the loved and the hated, and the firstborn son is the hated one's,”
Ifכִּיa manלְאִישׁhasתִהְיֶיןָtwoשְׁתֵּיwives,נָשִׁיםthe oneהָאַחַתlovedאֲהוּבָהand the otherוְהָאַחַתhated,שְׂנוּאָהand they have borneוְיָלְדוּhimלוֹsons,בָנִיםthe lovedהָאֲהוּבָהand the hated,וְהַשְּׂנוּאָהand the firstbornוְ הַבְּכוֹרsonהַבֵּןisהָיָהthe hated one's,לַשְּׂנִיאָה
man
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “ish” appearsbe
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “tihyena” appearstwo
A pair, a quantity of two.
Where else “shete” appearswife
Literally "his woman": the one married to him.
Where else “nashim” appearsone
The number one; just one and no more.
Where else “achat” appearslove
To care for someone from the heart and seek their good.
Where else “ahuva” appearslove less
To love one less than another, even without hating him outright.
Where else “senua” appearsbear
To bring a child into the world, giving birth after pregnancy.
Where else “yaldu” appearsson
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “vanim” appearsfirstborn
The son who came into the world before his brothers, with a special place in the family.
Where else “bechor” appearshated, unloved
Hated: the less loved wife.
Where else “senia” appears“Hated” here means the less loved wife, like Leah compared with Rachel (Genesis 29:30-31).
14And if you are not pleased with her, you shall let her go wherever she wishes; but you shall certainly not sell her for silver; you shall not treat her as a slave, because you have humiliated her.
15 · This verse (above)
16then on the day that he gives his sons as an inheritance what he has, he may not make firstborn the son of the loved one in place of the son of the hated one, the firstborn.
