Deuteronomy 24:5

New King James Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

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

Proverbs 5:18

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

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life which He has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity; for that is your portion in life, and in the labor 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, brethren, the time is short, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none,

Deuteronomy 20:7

And what man is there who is betrothed to a woman and has not married her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man marry her.’

Deuteronomy 24:6

“No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge, for he takes one’s living in pledge.