申命記 21:12-13 JCB

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:13

The raiment of her captivity ; i . e . the raiment she had on whoa taken captive; this she was to lay aside, that she might put on garments of mourning. A full month ; literally, a month of days ; the period of mourning was forty days (cf. Genesis 50:3 ). read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 21:12

The shaving the head (a customary sign of purification, Leviticus 14:8; Numbers 8:7), and the putting away “the garment of her captivity,” were designed to signify the translation of the woman from the state of a pagan and a slave to that of a wife among the covenant-people. Consistency required that she should “pare” (dress, compare 2 Samuel 19:24), not “suffer to grow,” her nails; and thus, so far as possible, lay aside everything belonging to her condition as an alien. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 21:13

Bewail her father and her mother a full month - This is prescribed from motives of humanity, that the woman might have time and leisure to detach her affections from their natural ties, and prepare her mind for new ones. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 21:12-13

Deuteronomy 21:12-13. She shall shave her head This was one of the external signs of mourning, Leviticus 19:27; Leviticus 21:5. Shall pare her nails This also seems to have been done in mourning. In the original it is, Shall make her nails, which may be understood of letting her nails grow, which to us seems more suitable to a state of mourning. But this is to be resolved entirely into the fashion of countries. Poole thinks that both of these things were rather to be done in token of... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:1-23

Respect for human life (21:1-23)Murder made the land unclean, and the uncleanness could be removed only by the execution of the murderer (see Numbers 35:29-34). Where the murderer could not be found, the elders of the town nearest the place of the murder had to go to an unpolluted stream nearby and carry out the ritual slaughter of a young cow instead of the unknown murderer. The blood of the cow washed away in the stream symbolized the removal of uncleanness caused by the unlawful bloodshed... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 21:13

raiment of her captivity = mantle in which she was taken captive. "Of" = Genitive of relation (see App-17 ). a full month. Hebrew = a moon of days. husband. Hebrew Baal, or lord. Compare first occurrence of verb, Genesis 20:3 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 21:12

Ver. 12. She shall shave her head, and pare her nails— Shaving the head was one of the external signs of mourning. See Leviticus 19:27; Leviticus 21:15. St. Jerome, and others, however, understand this shaving as a species of purification, and an abjuration of paganism. Paring the nails seems to have been also done in mourning. In the original it is, shall make her nails, which some understand of letting them grow; and this seems to us more suitable to a state of mourning; but the fashion of... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 21:13

Ver. 13. And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her— The French renders this more clearly: and she shall put off the raiment which she wore when she was taken captive; evidently to put on more vile apparel, and such as was better suited to the state and habit of mourning. In this dress she was to bewail her father and mother, either as slain in the war, or as likely to be seen no more by her; and this mourning was to continue a full month, the time usually allowed the Jews to... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Deuteronomy 21:10-14

Limits on a husband’s authority 21:10-14Israelite men could marry women from distant conquered cities taken as prisoners of war (provided they did not already have a wife). Such a woman had to shave her head and trim her nails. These were rituals of purification customary in the ancient Near East. [Note: Keil and Delitzsch, 3:406.] She received one month to mourn her parents (Deuteronomy 21:13). This may presuppose that they had died in the battle or, more likely, that she was to cut off all... read more