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Hebrew Servants

Exodus 21:10

In 11 translations

BSB
If he takes another wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of his first wife.
KJV
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
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.
LSV
If he takes another [woman] for him, he does not withdraw her food, her covering, and her habitation;
YLT
'If another [woman] he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw;
DBY
If he take himself another, her food, her clothing, and her conjugal rights he shall not diminish.
DRC
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.
GNV
If he take him another wife, he shall not diminish her foode, her rayment, and recompence of her virginitie.
JPS
If he take him another wife, her food, her raiment, and her conjugal rights, shall he not diminish.
LXXE
And if he take another to himself, he shall not deprive her of necessaries and her apparel, and her companionship with him.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
אִם־אַחֶ֖רֶת יִֽקַּֽח־ל֑וֹ שְׁאֵרָ֛הּ כְּסוּתָ֥הּ וְעֹנָתָ֖הּ לֹ֥א יִגְרָֽע׃
LXX-Br
Ἐὰν δὲ ἄλλην λάβῃ ἑαυτῷ, τὰ δέοντα καὶ τὸν ἱματισμὸν καὶ τὴν ὁμιλίαν αὐτῆς οὐκ ἀποστερήσει.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 Corinthians 7:1–6Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations. But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. The husband should…

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