^21:11if you should see among them²⁰ an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife, ^21:12you may bring her back to your house. She must shave her head,²¹ trim her nails, ^21:13discard the clothing she was wearing when captured,²² and stay²³ in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may have sexual relations²⁴ with her and become her husband and she your wife.

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Footnotes

20 Heb “the prisoners.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.
21 This requirement for the woman to shave her head may symbolize the putting away of the old life and customs in preparation for being numbered among the people of the Lord. The same is true for the two following requirements.
22 Heb “she is to … remove the clothing of her captivity” (cf. ); “discard her captive’s garb.”
23 Heb “sit”; , , “remain.”
24 Heb “go unto,” a common Hebrew euphemism for sexual relations.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire to take her to be your wife, and you bring her home to your house, she shall shave her head and pare her nails. And she shall take off the clothes in which she was captured and shall remain in your house and lament her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife. Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails 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.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

if you see a beautiful woman among the captives, desire her, and want to take her as your wife, you are to bring her into your house. She is to shave her head, trim her nails, remove the clothes she was wearing when she was taken prisoner, live in your house, and mourn for her father and mother a full month. After that, you may have sexual relations with her and be her husband, and she will be your wife.

NLTNew Living Translation

And suppose you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you are attracted to her and want to marry her. If this happens, you may take her to your home, where she must shave her head, cut her nails, and change the clothes she was wearing when she was captured. She will stay in your home, but let her mourn for her father and mother for a full month. Then you may marry her, and you will be her husband and she will be your wife.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

and you see among the captives a woman beautiful in appearance, and you become attached to her and you want to take her as a wife, then you shall bring her into your household, and she shall shave her head, and she shall trim her nails. 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, and after this you may have sex with her, and you may marry her, and she may become your wife.

KJV 1900King James Version

And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.

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