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 not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons nor 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 ye fruitful, and multiply, bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide 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 for him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou wilt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I dwell:

And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said to him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

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

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

And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter 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: now therefore get her for me for a wife.

But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself uncomely towards his virgin, if she hath passed the flower of her age, and need so requireth, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.