You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will be taken prisoner.

“When you go to war against your enemies and the Lord your God hands them over to you and you take some of them prisoner, and

remove the clothes she was wearing when she was taken prisoner, live in your house, and mourn for her father and mother a full month. After that, you may have sexual relations with her and be her husband, and she will be your wife.

“If your fellow Hebrew, a man or woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, you must set him free in the seventh year.

he may serve in the name of Yahweh his God like all his fellow Levites who minister there in the presence of the Lord.