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Deuteronomy 21:10

Verse 10 of 23. The 21st of 34 chapters in Deuteronomy, in The Law.

6All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.

7They shall answer and say, “Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

8Forgive, LORD, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood among your people Israel.” The blood shall be forgiven them.

9So you shall put away the innocent blood from among you, when you shall do that which is right in the LORD’s eyes.

10When you go out to battle against your enemies, and the LORD your God delivers them into your hands and you carry them away captive,

11and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you are attracted to her, and desire to take her as your wife,

12then you shall bring her home to your house. She shall shave her head and trim her nails.

13She shall take off the clothing of her captivity, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

14It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she desires; but you shall not sell her at all for money. You shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.