◄ Exodus 21:10 ►
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Good News Translation
If a man takes a second wife, he must continue to give his first wife the same amount of food and clothing and the same rights that she had before.

New Revised Standard Version
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish the food, clothing, or marital rights of the first wife.

Contemporary English Version
If the man later marries another woman, he must continue to provide food and clothing for the one he bought and to treat her as a wife.

New American Bible
If he takes another wife, he shall not withhold her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if he take another wife for him, he shall provide her a marriage, and raiment, neither shall he refuse the price of her chastity.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And if he take another wife for him, he shall provide her a marriage, and raiment, neither shall he refuse the price of her chastity.

her food.

1 Corinthians 7:1-6 Now concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. . . .

Context
Laws for Servants
…9But if he have betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. 10And if he take another wife for him, he shall provide her a marriage, and raiment, neither shall he refuse the price of her chastity.11If he do not these three things, she shall go out free without money.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:3
Let the husband render the debt to his wife: and the wife also in like manner to the husband.

1 Corinthians 7:5
Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may give yourselves to prayer: and return together again, lest Satan tempt you for your incontinency.

Exodus 21:9
But if he have betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

Exodus 21:11
If he do not these three things, she shall go out free without money.

Exodus 21:9
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