16 Bible Verses about Taking A Wife

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Genesis 24:4

But that you will go into my country and to my relations and get a wife there for my son Isaac.

Genesis 24:7

The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.

Genesis 24:38

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

Genesis 24:40

And he said, The Lord, whom I have ever kept before me, will send his angel with you, who will make it possible for you to get a wife for my son from my relations and my father's house;

Genesis 28:2

But go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and there get yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

Genesis 28:6

So when Esau saw that Isaac had given Jacob his blessing, and sent him away to Paddan-aram to get a wife for himself there, blessing him and saying to him, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan;

Judges 12:9

He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters whom he sent to other places, and he got thirty wives from other places for his sons. And he was judge of Israel for seven years.

Ezra 2:61

And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who was married to one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and took their name.

Nehemiah 7:63

And of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who was married to one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and took their name.

Matthew 1:20

But when he was giving thought to these things, an angel of the Lord came to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, have no fear of taking Mary as your wife; because that which is in her body is of the Holy Spirit.

Mark 12:20

There were seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and at his death there were no offspring;

Mark 12:21

And the second took her, and at his death there were no offspring; and the third the same:

Luke 20:29

Now there were seven brothers, and the first had a wife and came to his end, having no children;

Luke 20:31

And the third took her; and in the same way, all the seven, without having any children, came to their end.

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