Deuteronomy 24:5
When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be charged with any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
6No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge, for he takes life to pledge.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 20:7And what man is there who has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
Ecclesiastes 9:9Live joyfully with the wife whom thou love all the days of thy life of vanity, which he has given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity. For that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor in which thou labor under the sun.
Mark 10:6But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.
1 Corinthians 7:10And to those who are married, I do not command but the Lord. The wife is not to separate from her husband.
Ephesians 5:28So ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 24:2-5
The Law Concerning Divorce. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. 2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife. 3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or… Read the whole commentary →