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Exodus 21:10

If he takes him another wife; her food, her clothing, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
All Commentaries on Exodus 21:10 Go To Exodus 21

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Marriage. This seems to insinuate that she was divorced: but the best commentators suppose, that the introduction of the second wife was not to infringe the rights of the first. Hebrew, "he shall not diminish her food, raiment, and dwelling "but treat her as his wife. The Athenians required husbands to visit their wives thrice a month. Price A sufficient dowry, or the rights of marriage; "her company "(omilian.) Septuagint.
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