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 for yourself a wife, there shall not be for you sons and daughters in this place."

So God created humankind in his image, in the likeness of God he created him, male and female he created them.

"And you, be fruitful and multiply, swarm on the earth and multiply in it."

Therefore I want younger [widows] to marry, to bear children, to manage a household, to give the adversary no opportunity for reproach.

Take wives

And he lived in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

that I may make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose midst I am dwelling,

Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him. And he instructed him and said to him, "You must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.

Then Laban said, "Better [that] I give her to you than I give her to another man. Stay with me."

So Shechem said to Hamor his father, saying, "Get this girl for me as a wife."

And Caleb said, "Whoever attacks Kiriath Sepher and captures it, I will give to him Acsah my daughter as a wife."

He had thirty sons. He gave his thirty daughters away in marriage outside [his clan] and brought in from outside thirty young women for his sons. He judged Israel for seven years.

He went up and told his father and mother, and he said, "I saw a woman in Timnah from the daughters of [the] Philistines; so then, take her for me as a wife."

But if anyone thinks he is behaving dishonorably concerning his virgin, if she is past her prime and it ought to be thus, let him do what he wishes. He does not sin. Let them marry.