Deuteronomy 21:11
and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you are attracted to her, and desire to take her as your wife,
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12then you shall bring her home to your house. She shall shave her head and trim her nails.
Cross References
Genesis 12:14When Abram had come into Egypt, some Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
Genesis 34:3His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
Numbers 31:18But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Proverbs 6:25Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
Proverbs 31:30Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 21:11-15
The Case of Captive Women. ( b. c. 1451.) 10 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, 11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; 12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; 13 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail… Read the whole commentary →