ESV Reformation Study Bible – Deut 21:11
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Deut 21:11

21:11 among the captives a beautiful woman. The law preserved the sanctity of marriage. An Israelite man might take a captive woman, but he had to wait a month. She was to be given a chance to adjust and to grieve for her lost family. She was a wife, not chattel, and if the husband divorced her, he could not sell her as a slave.