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 a wife for yourself, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place.

And God created man in His image; in the image of God He created him. He created them male and female.

And you be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and increase in it.

Therefore I want the younger ones to marry, bear children, guide the house, giving no occasion to the adversary because of reproach.

Take wives

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

And I will make you swear by Jehovah, the God of Heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.

And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and commanded him. And he said to 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. Stay with me.

And Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, Get me this girl for a wife.

And Caleb said, He who strikes Kirjath-sepher and takes it, I will give Achsah my daughter to him for a wife.

And he had thirty sons and thirty daughters whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad 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 Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. And now get her for me for a wife.

But if anyone thinks it behaving himself indecently toward his virgin (if she is past her prime, and so it ought to be) let him do what he will; he does not sin; let them marry.