Deuteronomy 24:5 · KJV
“When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: {but} he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken. {neither...: Heb. not any thing shall pass upon him}”
— Deuteronomy 24:5
Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that {is} abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee {for} an inheritance.
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh {a man's} life to pledge.
Deuteronomy 24 — Context
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 if the latter husband die, which took her {to be} his wife;
4Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that {is} abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee {for} an inheritance.
5When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: {but} he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken. {neither...: Heb. not any thing shall pass upon him}
6No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh {a man's} life to pledge.
7If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
Cross References
Proverbs 5:18
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Deuteronomy 20:7
And what man {is there} 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.
Titus 2:4-5
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, {sober: or, wise}
Genesis 2:24
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Mark 10:6-9
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that {is} thy portion in {this} life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun. {Live...: Heb. See, or, Enjoy life}
Matthew 19:4-6
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made {them} at the beginning made them male and female,
Ephesians 5:28-29
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.