Deuteronomy 24:5

Modern English Version

When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war or be charged with any business; he is to be free at home one year, and must bring joy to his wife which he has taken.

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

Proverbs 5:18

Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth,

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that He has given you under the sun, because that is your reward in life and for your toil, which you perform under the sun.

Luke 14:20

“Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’

1 Corinthians 7:29

But this I say, brothers, the time is short. It remains that those who have wives should be as though they had none;

Deuteronomy 20:7

What man is there who is engaged to a woman but has not married her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.”

Deuteronomy 24:6

No man shall take a lower or upper millstone as a pledge, for he would be taking a man’s life as a pledge.