Deuteronomy 24:5-7

New International Version

⁵If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married.^(A)

⁶Do not take a pair of millstones—not even the upper one—as security for a debt, because that would be taking a person’s livelihood as security.^(B)

⁷If someone is caught kidnapping a fellow Israelite and treating or selling them as a slave, the kidnapper must die.^(C) You must purge the evil from among you.^(D)

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Deuteronomy 24:5-7

EasyEnglish Bible

⁵When a man has just married, do not send him away to fight in the army. Do not make him work at jobs in other places. He should stay at home for one year. Then he can make his new wife very happy.

⁶When you lend money to people, you may take something from them as a guarantee. But do not take the stones that they use to make grain into flour. Do not take either of the stones. People need both those stones to make food to stay alive. So do not take away their life.

⁷A man might take hold of another Israelite and make him his slave. He might try to sell him as a slave. Anyone who does that must die. You must remove evil things from among you.

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Deuteronomy 24:5-7

New King James Version

Miscellaneous Laws

⁵^(A)“When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war or be charged with any business; he shall be free at home one year, and ^(B)bring happiness to his wife whom he has taken.

⁶“No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge, for he takes ^[a]one’s living in pledge.

⁷“If a man is ^(C)found ^[b]kidnapping any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and mistreats him or sells him, then that kidnapper shall die; ^(D)and you shall put away the evil from among you.

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