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Exodus 21:10

Exodus 21:10

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

If he take him another wife—i.e; If he marry her himself, and then take another, even a legitimate, wife—her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage shall he not diminish—she shall retain during her life all the privileges of a married woman—he shall not diminish aught from them.

The word translated "duty of marriage" seems to mean "right of cohabitation."

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