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Exodus 21:10

World English Bible

If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

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Exodus 21:10 in other translations

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

Exodus 21:10 · American Standard Version

Exodus 21:10 in context

  1. 8If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.
  2. 9If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter.
  3. 10If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.
  4. 11If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.
  5. 12“One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,