Deuteronomy 24:5

Modern King James Version

When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any duty. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife whom he has taken.

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife and they shall be one flesh.

Proverbs 5:18

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

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Look on life with the wife whom you love all the days of the life of your vanity, which He has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity. For that is your share in this life, and in your labor which you labor under the sun.

Luke 14:20

And 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 both those who have wives should be as not having one.

Deuteronomy 20:7

And who is the man that has become engaged to 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.

Deuteronomy 24:6

No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone to pledge, for he takes a man's life to pledge.