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.
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- Deuteronomy 20:7 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.”
- Proverbs 5:18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
- Genesis 2:24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.