Statutes About Domestic Relations

¹⁰ “If you go out to battle against your enemies, and ^(A)Yahweh your God gives them over into your hands and you take them away captive, ¹¹ and see among the captives a beautiful woman and set your affection on her and would take her as a wife for yourself, ¹² then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall ^(B)shave her head and ^[a]trim her nails. ¹³ She shall also ^[b]remove the clothes of her captivity and shall remain in your house and ^(C)weep for her father and mother a full month; and after that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. ¹⁴ And it will be that, if you do not desire her, then you shall let her go ^[c]wherever she wishes; but you shall certainly not sell her for money; you shall not ^[d]mistreat her because you have ^(D)humbled her.