The Three Duties a Husband Owes Every Wife

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 320:7

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"He shall do for her according to the law of daughters" (Exodus 21:9): and what have we now learned about the law of daughters? Rather, this verse comes to teach and is found to be taught itself: just as for this one [the betrothed maidservant], her food, her clothing, and her conjugal rights he may not diminish, so too for a daughter of Israel, her food, her clothing, and her conjugal rights he may not diminish, the words of Rabbi Yoshiyah. Rabbi Yonatan says: Scripture speaks of the Hebrew maidservant. You say so, or is it rather about a daughter of Israel? When it says "if he takes another wife" (Exodus 21:10), behold the daughter of Israel is already mentioned; what then does "according to the law of daughters" teach? Scripture speaks of the Hebrew maidservant.

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