KJV King James Version
If he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
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Exodus 21:10
If he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
If he takes another wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of his first wife.
WEB World English Bible
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.
ASV American Standard Version
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
If another woman he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw;
Surrounding context — Exodus 21
7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
10 If he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver [him] into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
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