He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Jeremiah 29:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 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. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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 be diminished. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible Get married and have children; then help your sons find wives and your daughters find husbands in order that they too may have children. Increase in number there so that you don’t dwindle away. Catholic Public Domain Version Take wives, and conceive sons and daughters. And give wives to your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons and daughters. And be multiplied there, and do not choose to be few in number. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Take ye wives and beget sons and daughters: and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons and daughters: and be ye multiplied there, and be not few in number. |
He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Look, Rebekah is before you, take her and go, and let her be the wife of your master’s son, as the Lord has spoken.”
And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “May you, our sister, become thousands of myriads; may your offspring gain possession of the gates of their foes.”
Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me.”
So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this girl to be my wife.”
“And you, be fruitful and multiply, abound on the earth and have dominion over it.”
Go and get straw yourselves, wherever you can find it, but your work will not be lessened in the least.”
So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, and manage their households, so as to give the adversary no occasion to revile us.
He had thirty sons. He gave his thirty daughters in marriage outside his clan and brought in thirty young women from outside for his sons. He judged Israel seven years.
Then he came up and told his father and mother, “I saw a Philistine woman at Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.”