Deuteronomy 24:5
'When a man taketh a new wife, he doth not go out into the host, and [one] doth not pass over unto him for anything; free he is at his own house one year, and hath rejoiced his wife whom he hath taken.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
6'None doth take in pledge millstones, and rider, for life it [is] he is taking in pledge.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 20:7'And who [is] the man that hath betrothed a woman, and hath not taken her? — let him go and turn back to his house, lest he die in battle, and another man take her.
Ecclesiastes 9:9See life with the wife whom thou hast loved, all the days of the life of thy vanity, that He hath given to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity, for it [is] thy portion in life, even of thy labour that thou art labouring at under the sun.
Mark 10:6but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them;
1 Corinthians 7:10and to the married I announce — not I, but the Lord — let not 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 — himself he doth love;
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 →