Exodus 21:10

If the master takes another slave girl to be another wife for himself, he must continue to give the first slave wife the same amount of food and clothing that he gave to her before, and he must continue to have sex [EUP] with her as before.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

In Context

9If the man who buys her wants her to be a wife for his son, he must then treat her as though she were his own daughter.

11If he does not do all these three things for her, he must free her from being a slave, and she is not required to pay anything for being set free.

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Matthew Henry on Exodus 21:2-12

Judicial Laws. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. 2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. 3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. 5 And if the servant shall plainly say,… Read the whole commentary →

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