Deuteronomy 24:5

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be charged with any related duty. He shall be free at home one year, to be happy with the wife whom he has married.

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Proverbs 5:18

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

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that are given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.

Luke 14:20

Another said, ‘I have just been married, and therefore I cannot come.’

1 Corinthians 7:29

I mean, brothers and sisters, the appointed time has grown short; from now on, let even those who have wives be as though they had none,

Deuteronomy 20:7

Has anyone become engaged to a woman but not yet married her? He should go back to his house, or he might die in the battle and another marry her.”

Deuteronomy 24:6

No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge.