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

"Thou shalt take thee no wife, nor beget children in this place.

And God created man after his likeness, after the likeness of God created he him; male and female created he them.

See that ye increase, and wax, and be occupied upon the earth, and multiply therein."

I will therefore that the younger women marry and bear children, and guide the house, and give none occasion to the adversary to speak evil.

Take wives

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

that I may make thee swear by the LORD that is God of heaven and God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son, of the daughters of the Canaanites, among which I dwell.

Then Isaac called Jacob his son and blessed him, and charged him and said unto him, "See thou take not a wife of the daughters of Canaan,

And Laban answered, "It is better that I give her thee, than to another man: bide therefore with me."

and spake unto his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this maiden unto my wife."

And Caleb said, "He that smiteth Kiriathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife."

and he had thirty sons and thirty daughters, and sent also his thirty daughters out; and took thirty others in, for his sons.

and came up and told his father and his mother, and said, "I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. And now give her me to wife."

If any man think that it is uncomely for his virgin if she pass the time of marriage, and if so need require, let him do what he listeth, he sinneth not: let them be coupled in marriage.