¹⁸ But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him ^(A)keep alive for yourselves.

Marrying Female Captives

¹⁰ “When you go out to war against your enemies, and the Lord your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive, ¹¹ and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire to take her to be your wife, ¹² and you bring her home to your house, she shall shave her head and pare her nails. ¹³ And she shall take off the clothes in which she was captured and shall remain in your house and ^(A)lament her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. ¹⁴ But if you no longer delight in her, you shall ^(B)let her go where she wants. But you shall not sell her for money, nor shall you ^(C)treat her as a slave, since you have humiliated her.

² And ^(A)the peoples will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the Lord's land ^(B)as male and female slaves.^{[a] (C)}They will take captive those who were their captors, ^(D)and rule over those who oppressed them.

⁸ The men of Israel took captive 200,000 ^(A)of their relatives, women, sons, and daughters. They also took much spoil from them and brought the spoil to Samaria. ⁹ But a prophet of the Lord was there, whose name was Oded, and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria and said to them, “Behold, because the Lord, the God of your fathers, ^(B)was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand, but you have killed them in a rage ^(C)that has reached up to heaven. ¹⁰ And now you intend to subjugate the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, as your slaves. Have you not sins of your own against the Lord your God?

^14 (A)but the women and the little ones, the livestock, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you ^(B)shall take as plunder for yourselves. And ^(C)you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the Lord your God has given you.

⁴⁴ As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you.