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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Exodus 21:10

If he take to himself another, her food her clothing, and her marriage-right, shall he not withdraw.

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.
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.
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 Now, these are the regulations which thou shalt put before them. 2 When thou shalt acquire a servant who is a Hebrew, six years, shall he serve, - but in the seventh shall he go out freely - for nought. 3 If, by himself, he came in, by himself, shall he go out, - if he was married, then shall his wife go out with him. 4 If his lord gave him a wife, and she have borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her lords, and, he shall go out by himself. 5 But, if the servant shall plainly say, I love my lord, and my wife and my sons, - I will not go out free, 6 then shall his lord bring him near unto God, and shall bring him near unto the door, or unto the door-post, - and his lord shall pierce his ear with an awl, so shall he serve him all his life. 7 And when a man shall sell iris daughter to be a handmaid, she shall not go out according to the out-going of the men-servants, 8 If she is uncomely in the eyes of her lord, who hath not assigned her in marriage, then shall he suffer her to be redeemed: to a strange people, shall he not have power to sell her in that he hath dealt treacherously with her. 9 And if to his soul he assign her, according to the custom for daughters, shall he do for her. 10 If he take to himself another, her food her clothing, and her marriage-right, shall he not withdraw.

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 - Truly, Sarah thy wife, is about to bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name, Isaac, - and I will establish my covenant with him as an age-abiding covenant, to his seed after him.
Genesis 17:21
But my covenant, will I establish with Isaac, - whom Sarah shall bear, to thee, by this set time, in the next year.
Genesis 20:11
And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely there is no fear of God, in this place, - therefore will they slay me for the sake of my wife.
Genesis 21:6
And Sarah said, A laughing, hath God made for me, - Everyone that heareth will laugh with me.
Genesis 21:7
And she said - Who would have announced to Abraham, Sarah hath suckled children? yet have I borne a son, for his old age!
Genesis 21:11
And the word was very grievous in the eyes of Abraham, - on account of his son.
Genesis 21:12
And God said unto Abraham Let it not be grievous in thine eyes concerning the boy and concerning thy bondwoman, In all that Sarah may say unto thee, hearken to her voice, - For in Isaac, shall there be called to thee - a seed.
Genesis 21:22
And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech, with Phicol chieftain of his host, spake unto Abraham, saying, - God, is with thee in all that, thou art doing.
Genesis 21:31
On this account, was the name of that place called Beer-sheba, - because there, had they two sworn.
Genesis 22:10
And Abraham put forth his hand, and took the knife, - to slay 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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