King James Version
Exodus 21:10 in the King James Version says “If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 21 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.”
Exodus 21:10 · KJV
If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. please: Heb. be evil in the eyes of, etc
And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
KJV Study — Public Domain
used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
“wife her food”
H7607flesh (as swelling out), as living or for food; generally food of any kind; figuratively, kindred by blood
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“shall he not diminish”
H1639to scrape off; by implication, to shave, remove, lessen, withhold
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