You have forgotten the Rock who fathered you, and put out of mind the God who gave you birth.

Children of the third generation born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord.

You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity.

After you have produced children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, if you become corrupt and make an image of any kind and do other evil things before the Lord your God that enrage him,

You must set apart for the Lord your God every firstborn male born to your herds and flocks. You must not work the firstborn of your bulls or shear the firstborn of your flocks.

Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and they both bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.

Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.

and will secretly eat her afterbirth and her newborn children (since she has nothing else), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.