Quoting%20commentary for Ketubot 116:7

אי בשאינה ניזונת מאי למימרא אפי' למאן דאמר יכול הרב לומר לעבד עשה עמי ואיני זנך הני מילי בעבד כנעני דלא כתיב ביה עמך אבל עבד עברי דכתיב ביה (דברים טו, יג) עמך לא וכל שכן אשתו

If this is a case where [her husband is unable to] provide her maintenance, what does this teach us? Even according to the one who holds that a master has the right to say to his slave, “Work for me but I will not maintain you,” such a rule applies only to a Canaanite slave concerning whom Scripture has not written “with you,” but not to a Hebrew slave concerning whom it is written in Scripture, “With you,” all the more so he could not say so to his wife.

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