Jeremiah 29:6

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Summary

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

Take ye

Take wives

Bible References

Take ye

"You are not to take a wife, nor are you to have sons or daughters in this place."

So God created mankind in his own image; in his own image God created them; he created them male and female.

Now as for you, be productive and multiply; spread out over the land and multiply throughout it."

Therefore, I want younger widows to remarry, have children, manage their homes, and not give the enemy any chance to ridicule them.

Take wives

Later he settled in the desert area of Paran, and his mother chose a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

as a promise to the LORD, the God of heaven and earth, that you won't acquire a wife for my son from the Canaanite women among whom I'm living.

Later, Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, instructing him, "Don't marry a wife from the local Canaanite women.

"It's better that I give her to you than to another man," Laban replied, "so stay with me."

Then Shechem told his father Hamor, "Get this young woman for me to be my wife."

Caleb announced, "I'll give my daughter Achsah in marriage to whomever leads the attack against Kiriath-sepher and captures it."

He had 30 sons and 30 daughters, but he gave his daughters in marriage to outsiders and brought in 30 outsiders for his sons. He governed Israel for seven years,

Then he returned and told his father and mother, "In Timnah I saw a woman of Philistine origin." He ordered them, "Get her for me as a wife. Now!"

If a man thinks he is not behaving properly toward his virgin, and if his passion is so strong that he feels he ought to marry her, let him do what he wants; he isn't sinning. Let them get married.