Deuteronomy 24:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“If a man is newly married, he must not be sent to war or be pressed into any duty. For one year he is free to stay at home and bring joy to the wife he has married.”
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“If a man is newly married, he must not be sent to war or be pressed into any duty. For one year he is free to stay at home and bring joy to the wife he has married.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`When a man taketh a new wife, he doth not go out into the host, and <FI>one<Fi> 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 · Public DomainOther passages that echo Deuteronomy 24:5 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 2:24For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
- Deuteronomy 20:7Has any man become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man marry her.”
- Proverbs 5:18May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
- Ecclesiastes 9:9Enjoy life with your beloved wife all the days of the fleeting life that God has given you under the sun—all your fleeting days. For this is your portion in life and in your labor under the sun.
- Matthew 19:4Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’
- Mark 10:6However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’
- Luke 14:20Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, so I cannot come.’
- 1 Corinthians 7:10To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.
- 1 Corinthians 7:29What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;
- Ephesians 5:28In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
- Titus 2:4In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children,
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