Deuteronomy 24:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 20:7 : 7 Or if any man is newly married and has had no sex relations with his wife, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another man may not take her.
  • Prov 5:18 : 18 Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.
  • Gen 2:24 : 24 For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.
  • Eccl 9:9 : 9 Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.
  • Matt 19:4-6 : 4 And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said, 5 For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh? 6 So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Then let not that which has been joined by God be parted by man.
  • Mark 10:6-9 : 6 But from the first, male and female made he them. 7 For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; 8 And the two will become one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Let not that which has been joined together by God be parted by man.
  • 1 Cor 7:10-15 : 10 But to the married I give orders, though not I but the Lord, that the wife may not go away from her husband 11 (Or if she goes away from him, let her keep unmarried, or be united to her husband again); and that the husband may not go away from his wife. 12 But to the rest I say, and not the Lord; If a brother has a wife who is not a Christian, and it is her desire to go on living with him, let him not go away from her. 13 And if a woman has a husband who is not a Christian, and it is his desire to go on living with her, let her not go away from her husband. 14 For the husband who has not faith is made holy through his Christian wife, and the wife who is not a Christian is made holy through the brother: if not, your children would be unholy, but now are they holy. 15 But if the one who is not a Christian has a desire to go away, let it be so: the brother or the sister in such a position is not forced to do one thing or the other: but it is God's pleasure that we may be at peace with one another.
  • 1 Cor 7:29 : 29 But I say this, my brothers, the time is short; and from now it will be wise for those who have wives to be as if they had them not;
  • Eph 5:28-29 : 28 Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself: 29 For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church;
  • Titus 2:4-5 : 4 Training the younger women to have love for their husbands and children, 5 To be wise in mind, clean in heart, kind; working in their houses, living under the authority of their husbands; so that no evil may be said of the word of God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 20:5-7
    3 verses
    80%

    5And let the overseers say to the people, If there is any man who has made for himself a new house and has not gone into it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not take his house for himself.

    6Or if any man has made a vine-garden without taking the first-fruits of it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not be the first to make use of the fruit.

    7Or if any man is newly married and has had no sex relations with his wife, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another man may not take her.

  • Deut 24:1-4
    4 verses
    75%

    1If a man takes a wife, and after they are married she is unpleasing to him because of some bad quality in her, let him give her a statement in writing and send her away from his house.

    2And when she has gone away from him, she may become another man's wife.

    3And if the second husband has no love for her and, giving her a statement in writing, sends her away; or if death comes to the second husband to whom she was married;

    4Her first husband, who had sent her away, may not take her back after she has been wife to another; for that is disgusting to the Lord: and you are not to be a cause of sin in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.

  • Deut 21:10-14
    5 verses
    74%

    10When you go out to war against other nations, and the Lord your God gives them up into your hands and you take them as prisoners;

    11If among the prisoners you see a beautiful woman and it is your desire to make her your wife;

    12Then take her back to your house; and let her hair and her nails be cut;

    13And let her take off the dress in which she was made prisoner and go on living in your house and weeping for her father and mother for a full month: and after that you may go in to her and be her husband and she will be your wife.

    14But if you have no delight in her, you are to let her go wherever she will; you may not take a price for her as if she was your property, for you have made use of her for your pleasure.

  • Exod 21:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and her married rights are not to be less.

    11And if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free without payment.

  • Lev 21:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13And let him take as his wife one who has not had relations with a man.

    14A widow, or one whose husband has put her away, or a common woman of loose behaviour, may not be the wife of a priest; but let him take a virgin from among his people.

  • Deut 28:30
    71%

    30You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

  • Judg 21:22
    70%

    22And when their fathers or their brothers come and make trouble, you are to say to them, Give them to us as an act of grace; for we did not take them as wives for ourselves in war; and if you yourselves had given them to us you would have been responsible for the broken oath.

  • Num 5:13
    70%

    13By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret so that her husband has no knowledge of it, and there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;

  • Deut 25:5
    69%

    5If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do.

  • Deut 22:13-14
    2 verses
    69%

    13If any man takes a wife, and having had connection with her, has no delight in her,

    14And says evil things about her and gives her a bad name, saying, I took this woman, and when I had connection with her it was clear to me that she was not a virgin:

  • Num 30:13-14
    2 verses
    69%

    13But if her husband, on hearing of it, made them without force or effect, then whatever she has said about her oaths or her undertaking has no force: her husband has made them without effect, and she will have the Lord's forgiveness.

    14Every oath, and every undertaking which she gives, to keep herself from pleasure, may be supported or broken by her husband.

  • Num 30:11
    69%

    11If she made an oath while she was under the authority of her husband,

  • Deut 25:7-8
    2 verses
    68%

    7But if the man says he will not take his brother's wife, then let the wife go to the responsible men of the town, and say, My husband's brother will not keep his brother's name living in Israel; he will not do what it is right for a husband's brother to do.

    8Then the responsible men of the town will send for the man, and have talk with him: and if he still says, I will not take her;

  • Gen 2:24
    68%

    24For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

  • Deut 17:17
    68%

    17And he is not to have a great number of wives, for fear that his heart may be turned away; or great wealth of silver and gold.

  • Num 30:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    6But if her father, hearing of it, makes her take back her word, then the oaths or the undertakings she has given will have no force; and she will have forgiveness from the Lord, because her oath was broken by her father.

    7And if she is married to a husband at the time when she is under an oath or an undertaking given without thought;

  • Exod 21:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3If he comes to you by himself, let him go away by himself: if he is married, let his wife go away with him.

    4If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or daughters by her, the wife and her children will be the property of the master, and the servant is to go away by himself.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
    68%

    2But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

  • Ezek 44:22
    67%

    22And they are not to take as wives any widow or woman whose husband has put her away: but they may take virgins of the seed of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

  • Deut 25:11
    67%

    11If two men are fighting, and the wife of one of them, coming to the help of her husband, takes the other by the private parts;

  • 1 Cor 7:33
    67%

    33But the married man gives his attention to the things of this world, how he may give pleasure to his wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
    67%

    27If you are married to a wife, make no attempt to get free from her: if you are free from a wife, do not take a wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:10-11
    2 verses
    67%

    10But to the married I give orders, though not I but the Lord, that the wife may not go away from her husband

    11(Or if she goes away from him, let her keep unmarried, or be united to her husband again); and that the husband may not go away from his wife.

  • Lev 21:7
    67%

    7They may not take as wife a loose or common woman, or one who has been put away by her husband: for the priest is holy to his God.

  • Gen 24:38
    67%

    38But go to my father's house and to my relations for a wife for my son.

  • Prov 5:18
    67%

    18Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

  • Lev 18:18
    67%

    18And you may not take as wife a woman and at the same time her sister, to be in competition with her in her life-time.

  • Deut 24:6
    66%

    6No one is to take, on account of a debt, the stones with which grain is crushed: for in doing so he takes a man's living.

  • Jer 29:6
    66%

    6Take wives and have sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may have sons and daughters; and be increased in number there and do not become less.

  • Josh 23:12
    66%

    12For if you go back, joining yourselves to the rest of these nations who are still among you, getting married to them and living with them and they with you:

  • Deut 22:29
    66%

    29Then the man will have to give the virgin's father fifty shekels of silver and make her his wife, because he has put shame on her; he may never put her away all his life.

  • Rom 7:2
    66%

    2For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living; but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband.

  • Matt 19:5
    66%

    5For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?