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 shall not take you a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters in this place.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

And you, be you fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, rule the house, give no occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

Take wives

And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

And I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:

And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, you shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

And Laban said, It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.

And Shechem spoke unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel for my wife.

And Caleb said, He that strikes Kiriathsepher, and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife.

And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent outside for marriage, and took in thirty daughters from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.

And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me as a wife.

But if any man think that he behaves himself improperly toward his virgin, if she pass the prime of her age, and need so require, let him do what he desires, he sins not: let them marry.