8Have mercy, O Lord, on your people Israel whom you have made free, and take away from your people the crime of a death without cause. Then they will no longer be responsible for the man's death.
9So you will take away the crime of a death without cause from among you, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.
10When you go out to war against other nations, and the Lord your God gives them up into your hands and you take them as prisoners;
11If among the prisoners you see a beautiful woman and it is your desire to make her your wife;
12Then take her back to your house; and let her hair and her nails be cut;
13And let her take off the dress in which she was made prisoner and go on living in your house and weeping for her father and mother for a full month: and after that you may go in to her and be her husband and she will be your wife.
14But if you have no delight in her, you are to let her go wherever she will; you may not take a price for her as if she was your property, for you have made use of her for your pleasure.
