Deuteronomy 24:5

New International Version

If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married.

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Proverbs 5:18

May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun—all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun.

Luke 14:20

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

1 Corinthians 7:29

What I mean, brothers and sisters, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they do not;

Deuteronomy 20:7

Has anyone become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else marry her.”

Deuteronomy 24:6

Do not take a pair of millstones—not even the upper one—as security for a debt, because that would be taking a person’s livelihood as security.