<p class="poetry">You have forgotten<n id="1" /> the Rock who fathered you,p> <p class="poetry">and put out of mind the God who gave you birth.p>

Children of the third generation born to them<n id="1" /> may enter the assembly of the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

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

<t /><p class="bodytext">After you have produced children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time,<n id="1" /> if you become corrupt and make an image of any kind<n id="2" /> and do other evil things before the <sc>Lordsc> your God that enrage him,<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">You must set apart<n id="1" /> for the <sc>Lordsc> 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.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other,<n id="1" /> and they both<n id="2" /> bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.

Then<n id="1" /> the first son<n id="2" /> 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<n id="1" /> and her newborn children<n id="2" /> (since she has nothing else),<n id="3" /> because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.p>