Deuteronomy 24:5

Tree of Life Version

“When a man takes a new wife, he is not to go out with the army or have any duty passed over to him. He is to be free at home for one year and make his wife happy.

Cross References

Proverbs 5:18

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

Deuteronomy 20:7

What man has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? Let him go back to his house—otherwise he might die in the battle and another man would marry her.’

Genesis 2:24

This is why a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife; and they become one flesh.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Live joyously with the wife whom you love all the days of your fleeting life that He has given you under the sun during all your fleeting days—for this is your portion in life and in your toil that you labor under the sun.

1 Corinthians 7:29

But this I say, brothers and sisters—the time is short. From now on those who have wives should be as though they had none;

Luke 14:20

Still another said, ‘I’ve married a wife, so I cannot come.’

Deuteronomy 24:6

“No one is to take a pair of millstones or the upper one as collateral, for this would be taking a livelihood as collateral.