Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 houses and live in them.
Cross References
Jeremiah 16:2-4
“You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.
Genesis 1:27-28
He created him in the image of God;
He created them male and female.
Genesis 9:7
But you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out over the earth and multiply on it.”
Genesis 21:21
He settled in the Wilderness of Paran, and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Genesis 24:3-4
and I will have you swear by the Lord, God of heaven and God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I live,
Genesis 24:51
Rebekah is here in front of you. Take her and go, and let her be a wife for your master’s son, just as the Lord has spoken.”
Genesis 24:60
They blessed Rebekah, saying to her:
thousands upon ten thousands.
May your offspring possess
the gates of their
Genesis 28:1-4
Isaac summoned Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him: “Don’t take a wife from the Canaanite women.
Genesis 29:19
Laban replied, “Better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay with me.”
Genesis 34:4
“Get me this girl as a wife,”
Judges 1:12-14
Caleb
Judges 12:9
and had 30 sons. He gave his 30 daughters in marriage to men outside the tribe and brought back 30 wives for his sons from outside the tribe. Ibzan judged Israel seven years,
Judges 14:2
He went back and told his father and his mother: “I have seen a young Philistine woman in Timnah. Now get her for me as a wife.”
1 Corinthians 7:36-38
But if any man thinks he is acting improperly toward his virgin,
1 Timothy 5:14
Therefore, I want younger women to marry,