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Exodus 21:10
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KJ21
If he take for himself another wife, her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage shall he not diminish.
ASV
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
AMP
If her master marries another wife, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her privilege as a wife.
AMPC
If he marries again, her food, clothing, and privilege as a wife shall he not diminish.
BRG
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
CSB
If he takes an additional wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of the first wife.
CSBA
If he takes an additional wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of the first wife.
CEB
If he takes another woman for himself, he may not reduce her food, clothing, or marital rights.
CJB
If he marries another wife, he is not to reduce her food, clothing or marital rights.
CEV
If the man later marries another woman, he must continue to provide food and clothing for the one he bought and to treat her as a wife.
DARBY
If he take himself another, her food, her clothing, and her conjugal rights he shall not diminish.
DRA
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.
ERV
“If the master marries another woman, he must not give less food or clothing to the first wife. And he must continue to give her what she has a right to have in marriage.
EASY
If the master marries another woman as well, he must still take care of the first woman. He must continue to give her food and clothes. He must not refuse to sleep with her.
EHV
If he takes a second wife for himself, he must not diminish the food, the clothing, or the marital rights of the first wife.
ESV
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
ESVUK
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
EXB
If ·the man who bought her marries another woman [he takes another wife], he must not ·keep his first wife from having [deprive her of] food or clothing or ·sexual relations [marital rights].
GNV
If he take him another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her raiment, and recompense of her virginity.
GW
If that son marries another woman, he must not deprive the first wife of food, clothes, or sex.
GNT
If a man takes a second wife, he must continue to give his first wife the same amount of food and clothing and the same rights that she had before.
HCSB
If he takes an additional wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of the first wife.
ICB
The man who bought her might marry another woman. Then he must not keep his slave woman from having food or clothing or physical relations.
ISV
If he takes another woman for himself, he may not withhold from the first her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
JUB
If he takes another wife, her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, he shall not diminish.
KJV
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
AKJV
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
LSB
If he takes for himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.
LEB
If he takes for himself another, he will not reduce her food, her clothing, or her right of cohabitation.
TLB
If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing, or fail to sleep with her as his wife.
MSG
“When a man sells his daughter to be a handmaid, she doesn’t go free after six years like the men. If she doesn’t please her master, her family must buy her back; her master doesn’t have the right to sell her to foreigners since he broke his word to her. If he turns her over to his son, he has to treat her like a daughter. If he marries another woman, she retains all her full rights to meals, clothing, and marital relations. If he won’t do any of these three things for her, she goes free, for nothing.
MEV
If he marries another wife, then he must not diminish the first one’s food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
NOG
If that son marries another woman, he must not deprive the first wife of food, clothes, or sex.
NABRE
If he takes another wife, he shall not withhold her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.
NASB
If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.
NASB1995
If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.
NCB
If he takes another for himself, he will not withhold her food, her clothes, or her marriage rights.
NCV
If the man who bought her marries another woman, he must not keep his first wife from having food or clothing or sexual relations.
NET
If he takes another wife, he must not diminish the first one’s food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
NIRV
What if her master marries another woman? He must still give the first one her food and clothes and sleep with her.
NIV
If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights.
NIVUK
If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights.
NKJV
If he takes another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marriage rights.
NLV
If he marries again, her food, clothing and marriage rights are to stay the same.
NLT
“If a man who has married a slave wife takes another wife for himself, he must not neglect the rights of the first wife to food, clothing, and sexual intimacy.
NRSVA
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish the food, clothing, or marital rights of the first wife.
NRSVACE
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish the food, clothing, or marital rights of the first wife.
NRSVCE
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish the food, clothing, or marital rights of the first wife.
NRSVUE
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish the food, clothing, or marital rights of the first wife.
OJB
If he take him another, her food, her covering of clothing, and her onah (conjugal rights) shall he not deprive.
RGT
“If he takes another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.
RSV
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
RSVCE
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
TLV
If he takes another wife, he is not to diminish her food, her clothing, or her marriage rights.
VOICE
If the master decides he wants to marry an additional wife, then he must not reduce his slave-wife’s food or clothing or any other marital rights.
WEB
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.
WYC
and if he take with this handmaid another woman, or wife, to his son, he shall purvey to the (first) damsel, or handmaid, weddings, and clothes, and he shall not deny her the price of (her) chastity, that is, the hour of yielding debt. (but if he get another wife, besides this woman, for his son, he shall still give this young woman her wedding, and her clothes, and he shall not deny her the rights of her marriage bed.)
YLT
`If another [woman] he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw;
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