Deuteronomy 21:18

If a man hath a son perverse and rebellious, who will not obey the word of his father or his mother, and, though they instruct him, will not hearken to them;

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

In Context

17For he shall distribute to the firstborn the son of the hated by giving him two parts of all his possession; for he is the beginning of his strength, and to him pertaineth the birthright.

19then his father and mother shall lay hold of him, and bring him forth before the elders of his city at the gate of the judgment house of his place,

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Cross References

Exodus 21:15Whosoever striketh his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

Leviticus 19:3A man shall reverence his mother and his father, and you shall keep the day of My Sabbath: I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 8:5And know thou with thy heart, that as a man instructeth his son, (so) the Lord thy God instructeth thee.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 21:16-18

The Right of the Firstborn. ( b. c. 1451.) 15 If 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: 16 Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn: 17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that… Read the whole commentary →

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