Deuteronomy 21:13

21:13 discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, ¹  and stay ²  in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may have sexual relations ³  with her and become her husband and she your wife.

Deuteronomy 22:14

22:14 accusing her of impropriety ⁴  and defaming her reputation ⁵  by saying, “I married this woman but when I had sexual relations ⁶  with her I discovered she was not a virgin!”

Deuteronomy 22:22

22:22 If a man is caught having sexual relations with ⁷  a married woman ⁸  both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge ⁹  evil from Israel.

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¹ tn Heb “she is to…remove the clothing of her captivity” (cf. NASB); NRSV “discard her captive’s garb.”

² tn Heb “sit”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “remain.”

³ tn Heb “go unto,” a common Hebrew euphemism for sexual relations.

⁴ tn Heb “deeds of things”; NRSV “makes up charges against her”; NIV “slanders her.”

⁵ tn Heb “brings against her a bad name”; NIV “gives her a bad name.”

⁶ tn Heb “drew near to her.” This is another Hebrew euphemism for having sexual relations.

⁷ tn Heb “lying with” (so KJV, NASB), a Hebrew idiom for sexual relations.

⁸ tn Heb “a woman married to a husband.”

⁹ tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.