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Exd 21:10 — If he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

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. 1Cr 7:1-6"

Correlating Passages

her food

	1Cr 7:1	Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: [It is] good for a man not to touch a woman.
	1Cr 7:2	Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
	1Cr 7:3	Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
	1Cr 7:4	The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
	1Cr 7:5	Defraud ye not one the other, except [it be] with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
	1Cr 7:6	But I speak this by permission, [and] not of commandment.

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Scott, Thomas. "Exodus 21:10," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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