Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her - He shall give her the same dowry he would give to one of his own daughters. From these laws we learn, that if a man' s son married his servant, by his father' s consent, the father was obliged to treat her in every respect as a daughter; and if the son married another woman, as it appears he might do, Exodus 21:10, he was obliged to make no abatement in the privileges of the first wife, either in her food, raiment, or duty of marriage. The word onathah , here, is the same with St. Paul' s , the marriage debt, and with the ̔ of the Septuagint, which signifies the cohabitation of man and wife.
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