Deuteronomy 24:5
When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not goe a warfare, neither shalbe charged with any businesse, but shalbe free at home one yeere, and reioyce with his wife which he hath taken.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
6No man shall take the nether nor the vpper milstone to pledge: for this gage is his liuing.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 20:7And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and returne againe vnto his house, lest he die in the battell, and another man take her.
Ecclesiastes 9:9Reioyce with the wife whom thou hast loued all the dayes of the life of thy vanitie, which God hath giuen thee vnder the sunne all the dayes of thy vanitie: for this is thy portion in the life, and in thy trauaile wherein thou labourest vnder the sunne.
Mark 10:6But at the beginning of the creation God made them male and female:
1 Corinthians 7:10And vnto ye maried I comand, not I, but ye Lord, Let not ye wife depart from her husband.
Ephesians 5:28So ought men to loue their wiues, as their owne bodies: he that loueth his wife, loueth him selfe.
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 →