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Exodus 21

Ex. 21:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

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If he take
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
him another
'acher (Hebrew #312)
properly, hinder; generally, next, other, etc.
KJV usage: (an-)other man, following, next, strange.
Pronounce: akh-air'
Origin: from 309
wife; her food
sh'er (Hebrew #7607)
flesh (as swelling out), as living or for food; generally food of any kind; figuratively, kindred by blood
KJV usage: body, flesh, food, (near) kin(-sman, -swoman), near (nigh) (of kin).
Pronounce: sheh-ayr'
Origin: from 7604
, her raiment
kcuwth (Hebrew #3682)
a cover (garment); figuratively, a veiling
KJV usage: covering, raiment, vesture.
Pronounce: kes-ooth'
Origin: from 3680
, and her dutyq of marriage
`ownah (Hebrew #5772)
sexual (cohabitation)
KJV usage: duty of marriage.
Pronounce: o-naw'
Origin: from an unused root apparently meaning to dwell together
, shall he not diminish
gara` (Hebrew #1639)
to scrape off; by implication, to shave, remove, lessen, withhold
KJV usage: abate, clip, (di-)minish, do (take) away, keep back, restrain, make small, withdraw.
Pronounce: gaw-rah'
Origin: a primitive root
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1 Cor. 7:5• 5Defraud not one another, unless, it may be, by consent for a time, that ye may devote yourselves to prayer, and again be together, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency. (1 Cor. 7:5)

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Marriage,
Wife

Cross References

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her food.{Sheairah,} "her flesh;" he shall not only afford her a sufficient quantity of food, as before, but of the same quality.
She is not to be fed, like a common slave, with a sufficiency of bread, vegetables, milk, etc., but with her customary supply of flesh, and other agreeable articles of food.
1 Cor. 7:1‑6• 1But concerning the things of which ye have written to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman;
 2but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each woman have her own husband.
 3Let the husband render her due to the wife, and in like manner the wife to the husband.
 4The wife has not authority over her own body, but the husband: in like manner also the husband has not authority over his own body, but the wife.
 5Defraud not one another, unless, it may be, by consent for a time, that ye may devote yourselves to prayer, and again be together, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.
 6But this I say, as consenting to, not as commanding it. (1 Cor. 7:1‑6)

J. N. Darby Translation

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If he take himself another, her food, her clothing, and her conjugal rights he shall not diminish.