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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.
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Verse 5. Wife. This indulgence was granted to those who had married a widow also. Hebrew “a new wife,” as she was new to him, ( Bible.) which right he could not claim, if he only resumed the one whom he had divorced. R. Salom. Drus. See Calmet. 20:7.
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