Deuteronomy 24:5
When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go forth to war, neither shall he be charged with any business,—free, shall he be for his own house one year, and shall rejoice with his wife whom he hath taken.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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Deuteronomy 20:7And who is the man that hath betrothed a wife and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house,—lest he die in the battle, and, another man, take her.
Ecclesiastes 9:9Enjoy life, with thy wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity,—for, that, is thy portion in life, and in thy toil wherewith, thou, art toiling under the sun.
Mark 10:6But, from the beginning of creation, male and female, made he [them];
1 Corinthians 7:10To the married, however, I give charge—not, I, but the Lord,—that, a wife, from her husband, do not depart,—
Ephesians 5:28So, ought the husbands [also] to be loving their own wives, as their own bodies,—he that loveth his own wife, loveth 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 →