Then I told her, “You must stay at home with me for many days. You must not be like a prostitute. {\cf2\super [28]} You will not be with another man. And I will be your husband.”
“Be careful not to make any agreements with the people who live in that land. If you do this, then you might join them when they worship their gods. Those people will invite you to join them, and you will eat their sacrifices. [344]
She must take off the clothes she was wearing that showed she was taken in war. She must stay in your house and be sad about losing her father and her mother for a full month. After that, you may go to her and become her husband. She will be your wife.