Deuteronomy 24:5

A Conservative Version

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be charged with any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

Cross References

Proverbs 5:18

Let thy fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of thy youth:

Deuteronomy 20:7

And what man is there who has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife, and the two (LXX/NT) shall be one flesh.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou love all the days of thy life of vanity, which he has given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity. For that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor in which thou labor under the sun.

1 Corinthians 7:29

But this I say, brothers, the time is shortened. It is the remaining, so that also those who have wives may be as not having,

Luke 14:20

And another said, I married a wife, and because of this I cannot come.

Deuteronomy 24:6

No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge, for he takes life to pledge.