Deuteronomy 21:12
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New International Version (©1984)
Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and trim her nails.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Bring her into your home. She must shave her head, cut her nails,

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

American King James Version
Then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;

American Standard Version
then thou shalt bring her home to thy house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;

Bible in Basic English
Then take her back to your house; and let her hair and her nails be cut;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt bring her into thy house: and she shall shave her hair, and pare her nails,

Darby Bible Translation
then thou shalt bring her home to thy house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;

English Revised Version
then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;

Webster's Bible Translation
Then thou shalt bring her home to thy house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails:

World English Bible
then you shall bring her home to your house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;

Young's Literal Translation
then thou hast brought her in unto the midst of thy household, and she hath shaved her head, and prepared her nails,

Geneva Study Bible

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

(d) Signifying that her former life must be changed before she could be joined to the people of God.

Wesley's Notes

21:12 She shall shave her head - In token of her renouncing her heathenish idolatry and superstition, and of her becoming a new woman, and embracing the true religion.

King James Translators' Notes

pare: or, suffer to grow: Heb. make, or, dress

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

21:10-14 By this law a soldier was allowed to marry his captive, if he pleased. This might take place upon some occasions; but the law does not show any approval of it. It also intimates how binding the laws of justice and honour are in marriage; which is a sacred engagement.


Leviticus 14:8 "The one to be cleansed shall then wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe in water and be clean. Now afterward, he may enter the camp, but he shall stay outside his tent for seven days.
Leviticus 14:9 "It will be on the seventh day that he shall shave off all his hair: he shall shave his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair. He shall then wash his clothes and bathe his body in water and be clean.
Numbers 6:9 But if a man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his dedicated head of hair, then he shall shave his head on the day when he becomes clean; he shall shave it on the seventh day. (NASB ©1995)

Cut Hair Head Home House Household Midst Nails Prepared Shave Shaved Trim

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

and she shall This was in token of renouncing her religion, and becoming a proselyte to that of the jews. This is still a custom in the East: when a Christian turns Mohammedan, his head is shaved, and he is carried through the city crying {le eelah eela allah wemochammed resoolu llahee, `There is no God but the GOD, and Mohammed is the prophet of God.' 1Co 11:6 Eph 4:22

pare her nails; `i.e. probably neither paring nor letting them grow, but dressing or beautifying them as the Eastern women still do by tinging them with leave of an odoriferous plant called alhenna, which Hasselquist (p.246) informs us, `grows in India and in upper and lower Egypt, flowering from May to August. The leaves are pulverized and made into a paste with water: they bond this paste on the nails of their hands and feet, and keep it on all night. This gives them a deep yellow, which is greatly admired by Eastern nations. The colour lasts for three or four weeks before there is occasion to renew it. The custom is so ancient in Egypt, that I have seen the nails of mummies dyed in this manner.'

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