Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
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, and multiply ye there, and be not diminished.
New American Standard Bible
Take
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
Take wives and have sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and give your daughters to men in marriage so that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease.
International Standard Version
Take wives and father sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so they may have sons and daughters. Increase in numbers there, don't decrease.
American Standard Version
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; and multiply ye there, and be not diminished.
Amplified
Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there and do not decrease [in number].
Bible in Basic English
Take wives and have sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may have sons and daughters; and be increased in number there and do not become less.
Darby Translation
Take 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; and multiply there, and be not diminished.
Julia Smith Translation
Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and ye shall give your daughters to husbands, and they shall bring forth sons and daughters: and ye be increased there, and ye shall not be diminished.
King James 2000
Take yourself 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 you may be increased there, and not diminished.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Take wives and father sons and daughters, and take for your sons wives, and give your daughters to men that they may bear sons and daughters, and multiply there, and you must not be few.
Modern King James verseion
Take wives and father sons and daughters. And take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters, that you may be multiplied there and not become few.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
take you wives, to bear you sons and daughters; provide wives for your sons, and husbands for your daughters, that they may get sons and daughters, and that ye may multiply there. Labour not to be few,
NET Bible
Marry and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and allow your daughters get married so that they too can have sons and daughters. Grow in number; do not dwindle away.
New Heart English Bible
Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and do not be diminished.
The Emphasized Bible
Take ye wives and beget sons and daughters, And take wives, for your sons, and, your daughters, give ye to husbands, That they may bear sons and daughters, - And so become ye many there and do not become few;
Webster
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.
World English Bible
Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and don't be diminished.
Youngs Literal Translation
Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take for your sons wives, and your daughters give to husbands, and they bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and ye are not few;
Interlinear
Laqach
Yalad
son, children, old, first, man, young, young , child, stranger, people,
Usage: 0
Bath
son, children, old, first, man, young, young , child, stranger, people,
Usage: 0
Nathan
Bath
References
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 29:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jeremiah's Letter To The Exiles In Babylon
5 Build ye houses, and dwell in them, and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them. 6 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, and multiply ye there, and be not diminished. 7 And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to LORD for it, for in the peace of it ye shall have peace.
Cross References
Jeremiah 16:2-4
Thou shall not take thee a wife, nor shall thou have sons or daughters, in this place.
Genesis 1:27-28
And God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them.
Genesis 9:7
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply. Bring forth abundantly on the earth, and multiply on it.
Genesis 21:21
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took for him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
Genesis 24:3-4
And I will make thee swear by LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou will not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.
Genesis 24:51
Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as LORD has spoken.
Genesis 24:60
And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her, Our sister, be thou [the mother] of thousands of ten thousands, and let thy seed possess the gate of those who hate them.
Genesis 28:1-4
And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and ordered him, and said to him, Thou shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
Genesis 29:19
And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man. Abide with me.
Genesis 34:4
And Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.
Judges 1:12-14
And Caleb said, He who smites Kiriath-sepher, and takes it, I will give to him Achsah my daughter to wife.
Judges 12:9
And he had thirty sons. And he sent abroad thirty daughters, and thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
Judges 14:2
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 to wife.
1 Corinthians 7:36-38
But if any man thinks to behave improperly toward his virgin, if it is past the best time, and so ought to happen, she should do what she wants, she does not sin, they should marry.
1 Timothy 5:14
I desire therefore the younger women to marry, to bear children, to manage house, to give not one occasion to him who opposes on account of slander.