Deuteronomy 21:13
Good News Translation
and change her clothes. She is to stay in your home and mourn for her parents for a month; after that, you may marry her.

New Revised Standard Version
discard her captive’s garb, and shall remain in your house a full month, mourning for her father and mother; after that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

New American Bible
lay aside her captive’s garb, and stay in your house, mourning her father and mother for a full month. After that, you may come to her, and you shall be her husband and she shall be your wife.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And shall put off the raiment, wherein she was taken: and shall remain in thy house, and mourn for her father and mother one month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and shalt sleep with her, and she shall be thy wife.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And shall put off the raiment, wherein she was taken: and shall remain in thy house, and mourn for her father and mother one month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and shalt sleep with her, and she shall be thy wife.

and bewail

Psalm 45:10,11 Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thy ear: and forget thy people and thy father's house. . . .

Luke 14:26,27 If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. . . .

Context
Marrying a Captive Woman
12Thou shalt bring her into thy house: and she shall shave her hair, and pare her nails, 13And shall put off the raiment, wherein she was taken: and shall remain in thy house, and mourn for her father and mother one month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and shalt sleep with her, and she shall be thy wife.14But if afterwards she please thee not, thou shalt let her go free, but thou mayst not sell her for money nor oppress her by might because thou hast humbled her.…
Cross References
Psalm 45:10
Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thy ear: and forget thy people and thy father's house.

Hosea 3:3
And I said to her: Thou shalt wait for me many days: thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt be no man's, and I also will wait for thee.

Deuteronomy 21:12
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