Exodus 21:10
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
Exodus 21:10 in other translations
| BSB | If he takes another wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of his first wife. |
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| WEB | If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights. |
| ASV | If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. |
| YLT | ‘If another woman he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw; |
| DARBY | If he take himself another, her food, her clothing, and her conjugal rights he shall not diminish. |
| BBE | And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and her married rights are not to be less. |
| Webster | If he shall take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage shall he not diminish. |
What does Exodus 21:10 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 21:7-11
Ex 21:7-36. Laws for Maidservants. 7-11. if a man sell his daughter--Hebrew girls might be redeemed for a reasonable sum. But in the event of her parents or friends being unable to pay the redemption money, her owner was not at liberty to sell her elsewhere. Should she have been betrothed to him or his son, and either change their minds, a maintenance must be provided for her suitable to her condition as his…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 21:1-11
The laws in this chapter relate to the fifth and sixth commandments; and though they differ from our times and customs, nor are they binding on us, yet they explain the moral law, and the rules of natural justice. The servant, in the state of servitude, was an emblem of that state of bondage to sin, Satan, and the law, which man is brought into by robbing God of his glory, by the transgression of his precepts…
Exodus 21:10 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Exodus 21:10
- 1 Corinthians 7:1-6
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. …
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1Co 7:1-6
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Context
- Exodus 21:9
And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
- Exodus 21:10
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
- Exodus 21:11
And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
Exodus 21:10 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Si le tomare otra, no disminuirá su alimento, ni su vestido, ni el débito conyugal. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | S’il en prend une autre, il ne retranchera rien pour elle à sa nourriture, à son vêtement, et à son droit conjugal. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wenn er sich eine andere nimmt, so soll er ihre Nahrung, ihre Kleidung und ihre Beiwohnung nicht vermindern. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quod si alteram ei acceperit, providebit puellæ nuptias, et vestimenta, et pretium pudicitiæ non negabit. |