Deuteronomy 21:10-14

Evangelical Heritage Version

Captive Wives

¹⁰ When you go out for battle against your enemies and the Lord your God gives them into your hands, if you take some of them as captives, ¹¹ and you see in that group of captives a beautiful woman, and you are attracted to her and would like to take her as your wife, ¹² then you will bring her into your house. She is to shave her head and trim her nails. ¹³ She also is to remove the clothing she wore when she was captured and to stay in your house and weep for her father and her mother for a month. After that you may come to her and become her husband and she will become your wife.

¹⁴ Then if you are no longer pleased with her, you are to let her go as she desires. You must not sell her for money. You are not to deal with her as a slave,^[a] because you have humiliated her.