10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
10 If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights.
10 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
10 If he marries another woman, she retains all her full rights to meals, clothing, and marital relations.
10 If he takes another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marriage rights.
10 "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.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 21:10
Commentary on Exodus 21:1-11
(Read Exodus 21:1-11)
The laws in this chapter relate to the fifth and sixth commandments; and though they differ from our times and customs, nor are they binding on us, yet they explain the moral law, and the rules of natural justice. The servant, in the state of servitude, was an emblem of that state of bondage to sin, Satan, and the law, which man is brought into by robbing God of his glory, by the transgression of his precepts. Likewise in being made free, he was an emblem of that liberty wherewith Christ, the Son of God, makes free from bondage his people, who are free indeed; and made so freely, without money and without price, of free grace.