DEUTERONOMY 21:10-14
CONCERNING WOMEN PRISONERS OF WAR
10 “When the Lord your God gives you victory in battle and you take prisoners,
11 you may see among them a beautiful woman that you like and want to marry.
12 Take her to your home, where she will shave her head, cut her fingernails,
13 and change her clothes. She is to stay in your home and mourn for her parents for a month; after that, you may marry her.
14 Later, if you no longer want her, you are to let her go free. Since you forced her to have intercourse with you, you cannot treat her as a slave and sell her.
ACTS 22:17-29
PAUL CALL TO PREACH TO THE GENTILES
17 “I went back to Jerusalem, and while I was praying in the Temple, I had a vision,
18 in which I saw the Lord, as he said to me, ‘Hurry and leave Jerusalem quickly, because the people here will not accept your witness about me.’
19 ‘Lord,’ I answered, ‘they know very well that I went to the synagogues and arrested and beat those who believe in you.
20 And when your witness Stephen was put to death, I myself was there, approving of his murder and taking care of the cloaks of his murderers.’
21 ‘Go,’ the Lord said to me, ‘for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
22 The people listened to Paul until he said this; but then they started shouting at the top of their voices, “Away with him! Kill him! He's not fit to live!”
23 They were screaming, waving their clothes, and throwing dust up in the air.
24 The Roman commander ordered his men to take Paul into the fort, and he told them to whip him in order to find out why the Jews were screaming like this against him.
25 But when they had tied him up to be whipped, Paul said to the officer standing there, “Is it lawful for you to whip a Roman citizen who hasn't even been tried for any crime?”
26 When the officer heard this, he went to the commander and asked him, “What are you doing? That man is a Roman citizen!”
27 So the commander went to Paul and asked him, “Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?” “Yes,” answered Paul.
28 The commander said, “I became one by paying a large amount of money.” “But I am one by birth,” Paul answered.
29 At once the men who were going to question Paul drew back from him; and the commander was frightened when he realized that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had put him in chains.
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