Deuteronomy 24:5
When a man takes a new wife, he does not go out into the host, and [one] does not pass over to him for anything; he is free at his own house [for] one year, and his wife, whom he has taken, he has made glad.
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In Context
6No one takes millstones and rider in pledge, for it [is one’s] life he is taking in pledge.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 20:7And who [is] the man that has betrothed a woman and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in battle, and another man take her.
Ecclesiastes 9:9See life with the wife whom you have loved, all the days of the life of your vanity, that He has given to you under the sun, all the days of your vanity, for it [is] your portion in life, even of your labor that you are laboring at under the sun.
Mark 10:6but from the beginning of the creation God made them a male and a female;
1 Corinthians 7:10and to the married I announce—not I, but the LORD—do not let a wife separate from a husband:
Ephesians 5:28so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife—he 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 →