Deuteronomy 21:13 (WEB)
She shall take off the clothing of her captivity, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
Fathers and councils · 3
Jerome
“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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Clement of Alexandria
“Quod enim vellet lex viros uti moderate uxoribus, et propter solam liberorum susceptionem, ex eo clarum est, quod prohibet quidem eum, qui non habet uxorem, statim cum” captiva” habere consuetudinem.” — editor's note: Deut. xxi. 11, 12, 13.
Read the whole comment““But allow her,” it says, “thirty days to mourn according to her wish, and changing her clothes, associate with her as your lawful wife.”” — editor's note: Deut. xxi. 10–13.
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