Deuteronomy 24:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

A newly married man will not have to go out with the army or undertake any business, but may be free for one year, living in his house for the comfort of his wife.

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

Proverbs 5:18

Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.

Luke 14:20

And another said, I have been married, and so I am not able to come.

1 Corinthians 7:29

But I say this, my brothers, the time is short; and from now it will be wise for those who have wives to be as if they had them not;

Deuteronomy 20:7

Or if any man is newly married and has had no sex relations with his wife, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another man may not take her.

Deuteronomy 24:6

No one is to take, on account of a debt, the stones with which grain is crushed: for in doing so he takes a man's living.