Deuteronomy 21:11

21:11 if you should see among them ¹  an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife,

Deuteronomy 32:42

32:42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,

and my sword will devour flesh –

the blood of the slaughtered and captured,

the chief ²  of the enemy’s leaders!’”

Deuteronomy 21:13

21:13 discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, ³  and stay ⁴  in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may have sexual relations ⁵  with her and become her husband and she your wife.

[21:11]  ¹ tn Heb “the prisoners.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.

[32:42]  ² tn Or “head” (the same Hebrew word can mean “head” in the sense of “leader, chieftain” or “head” in the sense of body part).

[21:13]  ³ tn Heb “she is to…remove the clothing of her captivity” (cf. NASB); NRSV “discard her captive’s garb.”

[21:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “sit”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “remain.”

[21:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “go unto,” a common Hebrew euphemism for sexual relations.