If you want to take another wife in place of the one you are married to, then even if you have given her a talent of gold, do not take back a thing. Would you take it away by slandering and using unjust means?
如果你們休一個妻室，而另娶一個妻室，即使你們已給過前妻一千兩黃金，你們也不要取回一絲毫。難道你們要加以誣蔑和虧枉而把它取回嗎？