Êxodo 21:10

10 Se o senhor tomar uma segunda mulher para si, não poderá privar a primeira de alimento, de roupas e dos direitos conjugais.

Êxodo 21:10 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 21:10

If he take him another wife
The father takes another wife for his son, or the son takes another wife to himself after he has betrothed and married his father's maidservant:

her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish;
neither deny it her in whole, nor lessen it in part, but give her her full due of each. What is meant by the two former words is easy, and admits of no difficulty, the latter is differently interpreted. Some take it to signify no other than an "habitation" ^F21, that as he was to provide food and raiment for her, so an house to dwell, in; but the generality of interpreters, Jewish and Christian, understand it as we do, of the conjugal duty, the use of the marriage bed, or what the apostle calls due benevolence, ( 1 Corinthians 7:3 ) . The word is thought to have the signification of a fixed time for it; and the Misnic doctors ^F23 are very particular in assigning the set times of it for different persons; and in those countries where there were, and where there still are, plurality of wives, each had, and have their turns, see ( Genesis 30:15 Genesis 30:16 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F21 (htne) "habitationem ejus", Montanus, Junius & Tremellius; so some in Aben Ezra. Vid. Pfeiffer. "dubia vexata", cent. 1. loc. 97.
F23 Misn. Cetubot, c. 5. sect. 6.

Êxodo 21:10 In-Context

8 Se ela não agradar ao seu senhor que a escolheu, ele deverá permitir que ela seja resgatada. Não poderá vendê-la a estrangeiros, pois isso seria deslealdade para com ela.

9 Se o seu senhor a escolher para seu filho, dê a ela os direitos de uma filha.

10 Se o senhor tomar uma segunda mulher para si, não poderá privar a primeira de alimento, de roupas e dos direitos conjugais.

11 Se não lhe garantir essas três coisas, ela poderá ir embora sem precisar pagar nada.

12 “Quem ferir um homem e o matar terá que ser executado.