| Exodus 21:10
| And if he take another wife for him, he shall provide her a marriage, and raiment, neither shall he refuse the price of her chastity.
| Marriage. This seems to insinuate that she was divorced: but the best commentators suppose, that the introduction of the second wife was not to infringe the rights of the first. Hebrew, "he shall not diminish her food, raiment, and dwelling," but treat her as his wife. The Athenians required husbands to visit their wives thrice a month. --- Price, etc. A sufficient dowry, or the rights of marriage; "her company," (omilian.) Septuagint.
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