Deuteronomy 24:5 “If a man is newly married, he must not be sent to war or be pressed in…”

Deuteronomy 24:5

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

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

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.

Darby Translation

When a man hath newly taken a wife, he shall not go out with the army, neither shall any kind of business be imposed upon him; he shall be free for his house one year, and shall gladden his wife whom he hath taken.

Young's Literal Translation

'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.

Bible in Basic English

A newly married man will not have to go out with the army or undertake any business, but may be free for one year, living in his house for the comfort of his wife.

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Cross references

“a man”

Deuteronomy 20:7 Genesis 2:24 Mark 10:6–9 Matthew 19:4–6 1 Corinthians 7:10–15 Ephesians 5:28

Deuteronomy 20:7 · BSB

Has 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.”

Genesis 2:24 · BSB

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

Mark 10:6–9 · BSB

However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’

Matthew 19:4–6 · BSB

Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’

1 Corinthians 7:10–15 · BSB

To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.

Ephesians 5:28 · BSB

In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

“cheer up”

Proverbs 5:18 Ecclesiastes 9:9 1 Corinthians 7:29

Proverbs 5:18 · BSB

May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:

Ecclesiastes 9:9 · BSB

Enjoy 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.

1 Corinthians 7:29 · BSB

What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4then the husband who divorced her first may not remarry her after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination to the LORD. You must not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

6Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.

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