Exodus 21:10

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“If he takes another wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of his first wife.”

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BSBPD

“If he takes another wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of his first wife.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`If another <FI>woman<Fi> he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Exodus 21:10 — 1 related verse from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 1 Corinthians 7:1Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations.

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