Deuteronomy 24:5
When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
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In Context
6No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 20:7What man is there who has pledged to be married to 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 you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
Mark 10:6But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
1 Corinthians 7:10But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband
Ephesians 5:28Even so husbands also ought 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 →