Deuteronomy 24:5

New International Reader's Version

Suppose a man has just married his wife. Then don’t send him into battle. Don’t give him any other duty either. He’s free to stay home for one year. He needs time to make his new wife happy.

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

That’s why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife. The two of them become one.

Proverbs 5:18

May your fountain be blessed. May the wife you married when you were young make you happy.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

You love your wife. So enjoy life with her. Do it all the days of this meaningless life God has given you on earth. That’s what he made you for. That’s what you get for all your hard work on earth.

Luke 14:20

“Still another said, ‘I just got married, so I can’t come.’

1 Corinthians 7:29

Brothers and sisters, what I mean is that the time is short. From now on, those who have a husband or wife should live as if they did not.

Deuteronomy 20:7

Has anyone promised to be married to a woman but hasn’t done it yet? Let him go home. If he doesn’t, he might die in battle. Then someone else will marry her.”

Deuteronomy 24:6

Someone might borrow money from you and give you two millstones to keep until you are paid back. Don’t keep them. Don’t even keep the upper one. That person needs both millstones to make a living.