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Deuteronomy 21:12

King James Version (KJV)

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Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;

Deuteronomy 21:12 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Deuteronomy 21:12

Theological / Devotional

To thine house. Literally, “to the midst of thy household,” certainly a more honorable procedure than to keep her secretly elsewhere.

Shave her head. Probably in mourning; or for purification, as some commentators think. Some widows in the East are said to perform a similar type of ritual at the end of a year of mourning for their deceased husbands.

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