Passage Resources Hebrew/Greek Your Content
Previous Next
Add parallel Print Page Options

Deuteronomy 21:9-11
New English Translation

9 In this manner you will purge the guilt of innocent blood from among you, for you must do what is right before[a] the Lord.

Laws Concerning Female Captives

10 When you go out to do battle with your enemies and the Lord your God allows you to prevail[b] and you take prisoners, 11 if you should see among them[c] an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife,

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 21:9 tn Heb “in the eyes of” (so ASV, NASB, NIV).
  2. Deuteronomy 21:10 tn Heb “gives him into your hands.”
  3. Deuteronomy 21:11 tn Heb “the prisoners.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.
Next
Deuteronomy 20
Deuteronomy 22
Next
dropdown
New English Translation (NET)

NET Bible® copyright ©1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com All rights reserved.