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 24:1

24:1 If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something offensive ⁷  in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.

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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 “nakedness of a thing.” The Hebrew phrase עֶרְוַת דָּבָר (’ervat davar) refers here to some gross sexual impropriety (see note on “indecent” in Deut 23:14). Though the term usually has to do only with indecent exposure of the genitals, it can also include such behavior as adultery (cf. Lev 18:6-18; 20:11, 17, 20-21; Ezek 22:10; 23:29; Hos 2:10).