Cross References → Genesis 25:32

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’

They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’

For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’

You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?

If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the unloved wife has the firstborn son, when that man assigns his inheritance to his sons he must not appoint the son of the beloved wife as the firstborn over the son of the unloved wife. Instead, he must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of his unloved wife, by giving him a double portion of all that he has. For that son is the firstfruits of his father’s strength; the right of the firstborn belongs to him.