11if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife.


In Context

8 Accept this atonement for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, O Lord , and do not hold your people guilty of the blood of an innocent man." And the bloodshed will be atoned for.

9 So you will purge from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the Lord .

10 When you go to war against your enemies and the Lord your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives,

11 if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife.

12 Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails

13 and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.

Deuteronomy 21:11 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:11And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:11And seest in the number of the captives a beautiful woman, and lovest her, and wilt have her to wife,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:11and seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to thee to wife;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:11and thou seest among the captives a woman of beautiful form, and hast a desire unto her, and takest her as thy wife;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:11and seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to thee to wife;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:11And thou seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire to her, that thou wouldest have her for thy wife:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:11and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and would take her to you as wife;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:11and hast seen in the captivity a woman of fair form, and hast delighted in her, and hast taken to thee for a wife,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:11And see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire to her, that you would have her to your wife;