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Deuteronomy 21:13-15
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13 And she shall remove the clothing of her captivity from her, and she shall remain in your house, and she shall mourn her father and her mother a full month,[a] and after this you may have sex with her,[b] and you may marry her, and she may become your wife.[c] 14 And then if you do not take delight in her, then you shall let her go to do whatever she wants,[d] but you shall not treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored[e] her.

15 “If a man has two wives, and the one is loved and the other one is disliked and the one loved and the one that is disliked have borne for him sons, if it happens that the firstborn son belongs to the one that is disliked,[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 21:13 Literally “a month of days”
  2. Deuteronomy 21:13 Literally “you may go into her”
  3. Deuteronomy 21:13 Literally “become for you as wife”
  4. Deuteronomy 21:14 Literally “according to her desire/soul”
  5. Deuteronomy 21:14 Or “humbled”
  6. Deuteronomy 21:15 Literally “is to the wife who is hated”
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