Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Deuteronomy 21:12-17 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

12. Thou shalt bring her into thy house: and she shall shave her hair, and pare her nails,

13. And shall put off the raiment, wherein she was taken: and shall remain in thy house, and mourn for her father and mother one month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and shalt sleep with her, and she shall be thy wife.

14. Rut if afterwards she please thee not, thou shalt let her go free, but thou mayst not sell her for money nor oppress her by might because thou hast humbled her.

15. If a man have two wives, one beloved, and the other hated, and they have had children by him, and the son of the hated be the firstborn,

16. And he meaneth to divide his substance among his sons: he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn, and prefer him before the son of the hated.

17. But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, and shall give him a double portion of all he hath: for this is the first of his children, and to him are due the first birthrights.