Deuteronomy 21:12
Deuteronomy chapter 21 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000then thou shalt bring her home to thy house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
KJV
King James Version · 1611Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901then thou shalt bring her home to thy house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
Context
v.11and seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to thee to wife;
v.12This passage
v.13and she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thy 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.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ephesians 4:22
that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
- Numbers 6:9
And if any man die very suddenly beside him, and he defile the head of his separation; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.
- 1 Corinthians 11:6
For if a woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn: but if it is a shame to a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled.
- Leviticus 14:9
And it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.