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Douay-Rheims Bible

Exodus 21:10

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.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Concubinage;   Daughter;   Divorce;   Polygamy;   Servant;   Wife;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Servants;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Concubine;   Ethics;   Husband;   Justice;   Master;   Slave;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Concubine;   Family Life and Relations;   Law;   Slave, Slavery;   Work;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Wife;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Law;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Concubine;   Economic Life;   Exodus, Book of;   Freedom;   Hammurabi;   Pentateuch;   Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   Slave/servant;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Covenant, Book of the;   Ethics;   Family;   Hexateuch;   Law;   Leviticus;   Marriage;   Priests and Levites;   Sabbatical Year;   Sin;   Slave, Slavery;   Ten Commandments;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Concubine;   Marriage;   Servant;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Marriage;   Slave;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Marriage;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Benevolence;   Covenant, the Book of the;   Criticism (the Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis);   Duty;   Flesh;   Law in the Old Testament;   Relationships, Family;   Slave;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Commandments, the 613;   Euphemism;   Family and Family Life;   Flesh;   Husband and Wife;   Marriage;   Monogamy;   Polygamy;   Slaves and Slavery;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.
King James Version
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
Lexham English Bible
If he takes for himself another, he will not reduce her food, her clothing, or her right of cohabitation.
New Century Version
If the man who bought her marries another woman, he must not keep his first wife from having food or clothing or sexual relations.
New English Translation
If he takes another wife, he must not diminish the first one's food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
Amplified Bible
"If her master marries another wife, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her privilege as a wife.
New American Standard Bible
"If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.
Geneva Bible (1587)
If he take him another wife, he shall not diminish her foode, her rayment, and recompence of her virginitie.
Legacy Standard Bible
If he takes for himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.
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.
Complete Jewish Bible
If he marries another wife, he is not to reduce her food, clothing or marital rights.
Darby Translation
If he take himself another, her food, her clothing, and her conjugal rights he shall not diminish.
Easy-to-Read Version
"If the master marries another woman, he must not give less food or clothing to the first wife. And he must continue to give her what she has a right to have in marriage.
English Standard Version
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
George Lamsa Translation
If he takes to himself another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothes, and her conjugal rights.
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.
Christian Standard Bible®
If he takes an additional wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of the first wife.
Literal Translation
If he takes another for himself, her flesh, her clothing, and her conjugal right shall not be diminished.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But yf he geue him another wife, then shall he mynishe nothinge of hir foode, rayment, and dewtye of mariage.
American Standard Version
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
Bible in Basic English
And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and her married rights are not to be less.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And if he take hym another wyfe: yet her foode, her rayment, and duetie of maryage shall he not minishe.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
If he take him another wife, her food, her raiment, and her conjugal rights, shall he not diminish.
King James Version (1611)
If he take him another wife, her food, her rayment, and her duety of mariage shall he not diminish.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if he take another to himself, he shall not deprive her of necessaries and her apparel, and her companionship with him.
English Revised Version
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
Berean Standard Bible
If he takes another wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of his first wife.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
that if he takith another womman to hym, he schal puruey to the damysele weddingis, and clothis, and he schal not denye the prijs of chastite.
Young's Literal Translation
`If another [woman] he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw;
Update Bible Version
If he takes him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, he shall not diminish.
Webster's Bible Translation
If he shall take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage shall he not diminish.
World English Bible
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.
New King James Version
If he takes another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marriage rights.
New Living Translation
"If a man who has married a slave wife takes another wife for himself, he must not neglect the rights of the first wife to food, clothing, and sexual intimacy.
New Life Bible
If he marries again, her food, clothing and marriage rights are to stay the same.
New Revised Standard
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish the food, clothing, or marital rights of the first wife.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If he take to himself another, her food her clothing, and her marriage-right, shall he not withdraw.
Revised Standard Version
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.

Contextual Overview

1 These are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. 2 If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee; in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. 3 With what raiment he came in, with the like let him go out: if having a wife, his wife also shall go out with him. 4 But if his master gave him a wife, and she hath borne sons and daughters; the woman and her children shall be her master’s: but he himself shall go out with his raiment. 5 And if the servant shall say: I love my master and my wife and children, I will not go out free: 6 His master shall bring him to the gods, and he shall be set to the door and the posts, and he shall bore his ear through with an awl: and he shall be his servant for ever. 7 If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out. 8 If she displease the eyes of her master to whom she was delivered, he shall let her go: but he shall have no power to sell her to a foreign nation, if he despise her. 9 But if he have betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. 10 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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

her food: Sheairah, "her flesh;" he shall not only afford her a sufficient quantity of food, as before, but of the same quality. She is not to be fed, like a common slave, with a sufficiency of bread, vegetables, milk, etc., but with her customary supply of flesh, and other agreeable articles of food. 1 Corinthians 7:1-6

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 24:1 - hath taken 1 Corinthians 7:3 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 17:19
And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for a perpetual covenant, and with his seed after him.
Genesis 17:21
But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sara shall bring forth to thee at this time in the next year.
Genesis 20:11
Abraham answered: I thought with myself, saying: Perhaps there is not the fear of God in this place: and they will kill me for the sake of my wife:
Genesis 21:6
And Sara said: God hath made a laughter for me: whosoever shall hear of it will laugh with me.
Genesis 21:7
And again she said: Who would believe that Abraham should hear that Sara gave suck to a son, whom she bore to him in his old age?
Genesis 21:11
Abraham took this grievously for his son.
Genesis 21:12
And God said to him: Let it not seem grievous to thee for the boy, and for thy bondwoman: in all that Sara hath said to thee, hearken to her voice: for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
Genesis 21:22
At the same time Abimelech, and Phicol the general of his army, said to Abraham: God is with thee in all that thou dost.
Genesis 21:31
Therefore that place was called Bersabee; because there both of them did swear.
Genesis 22:10
And he put forth his hand, and took the sword, to sacrifice his son.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If he take him another wife,.... The father takes another wife for his son, or the son takes another wife to himself after he has betrothed and married his father's maidservant:

her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish; neither deny it her in whole, nor lessen it in part, but give her her full due of each. What is meant by the two former words is easy, and admits of no difficulty, the latter is differently interpreted. Some take it to signify no other than an "habitation" u, that as he was to provide food and raiment for her, so an house to dwell, in; but the generality of interpreters, Jewish and Christian, understand it as we do, of the conjugal duty, the use of the marriage bed, or what the apostle calls due benevolence, 1 Corinthians 7:3. The word is thought to have the signification of a fixed time for it; and the Misnic doctors w are very particular in assigning the set times of it for different persons; and in those countries where there were, and where there still are, plurality of wives, each had, and have their turns, see

Genesis 30:15.

u ענתה "habitationem ejus", Montanus, Junius Tremellius so some in Aben Ezra. Vid. Pfeiffer. "dubia vexata", cent. 1. loc. 97. w Misn. Cetubot, c. 5. sect. 6.


 
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