Study Desk

"When you go out to battle against your enemies, and the LORD your God hands them over to you and you take them away captive,

When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,

and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and are strongly attracted to her and would take her as a wife for yourself,

And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;

then you shall bring her into your home, and she shall shave her head and trim her nails.

Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;

"She shall also remove the clothes of her captivity and shall remain in your house, and weep for her father and mother a full month; and after that you may have relations with her and become her husband and she shall be your wife.

And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.

"But it shall be, if you are not pleased with her, then you shall let her go wherever she wishes; and you certainly shall not sell her for money, you shall not treat her as merchandise, since you have humiliated her.

And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.