KJV 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.
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Deuteronomy 24:5
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
WEB 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.
ASV 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.
YLT 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.
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 24
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 if the latter husband die, which took her [to be] his wife;
4 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.
5 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.
6 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh [a man’s] life to pledge.
7 If 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.
8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, [so] ye shall observe to do.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
כִּֽי־H3588 · kiforיִקַּ֥חH3947 · la.qachto take: takeאִישׁ֙H376 · ishmanאִשָּׁ֣הH802 · ish.shahwomanחֲדָשָׁ֔הH2319 · cha.dashNew (Gate)לֹ֤אH3808 · lonotיֵצֵא֙H3318 · ya.tsato come out: comeבַּצָּבָ֔אH6635 · tsa.vaarmyוְלֹא־H3808 · lonotיַעֲבֹ֥רH5674 · a.varto passעָלָ֖יוH5921 · aluponלְכָל־H3605 · kolallדָּבָ֑רH1697 · da.varwordנָקִ֞יH5355 · na.qiinnocentיִהְיֶ֤הH1961 · ha.yahto beלְבֵיתוֹ֙H1004 · betplaceשָׁנָ֣הH8141 · sha.nehyearאֶחָ֔תH259 · e.chadoneוְשִׂמַּ֖חH8055 · sa.machto rejoiceאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]אִשְׁתּ֥וֹH802 · ish.shahwomanאֲשֶׁר־H834 · a.sherwhichלָקָֽח׃ סH3947 · la.qachto take: take
Cross-references
Deuteronomy 20:7And 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.Proverbs 5:18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.Genesis 2:24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.Titus 2:4-5That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,Mark 10:6-9But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.Matthew 19:4-6And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made [them] at the beginning made them male and female,Ecclesiastes 9:9Live 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.Ephesians 5:28-29So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.1 Corinthians 7:10-15And unto the married I command, [yet] not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from [her] husband:1 Corinthians 7:29But this I say, brethren, the time [is] short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
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