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The Ark Passes Over the Jordan, James Tissot

Deuteronomy 21:12

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Deuteronomy 21:12 (WEB)

then you shall bring her home to your house. She shall shave her head and trim her nails.

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  • “But if you love a captive woman, that is, worldly wisdom, and if no beauty but hers attracts you, make her bald and cut off her alluring hair, that is to say, the graces of style, and pare away her dead nails.” — editor's note: Cf. Deut. xxi. 11, 12.

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  • “He had read in Deuteronomy the command given by the voice of the Lord that when a captive woman had had her head shaved, her eyebrows and all her hair cut off, and her nails pared, she might then be taken to wife.” — editor's note: Deut. xxi. 10–13.

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