Jeremiah 29:6

Bible in Basic English 1965

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.

Cross References

Genesis 21:21

And while he was in the waste land of Paran, his mother got him a wife from the land of Egypt.

Genesis 24:51

See, here is Rebekah: take her and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as the Lord has said.

Genesis 24:60

And they gave Rebekah their blessing, saying, O sister, may you be the mother of thousands and ten thousands; and may your seed overcome all those who make war against them.

Genesis 29:19

And Laban said, It is better for you to have her than another man: go on living here with me.

Genesis 34:4

And Shechem said to Hamor, his father, Get me this girl for my wife.

Genesis 9:7

And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number.

Exodus 5:11

Go yourselves and get dry stems wherever you are able; for your work is not to be any less.

1 Timothy 5:14

So it is my desire that the younger widows may be married and have children, controlling their families, and giving the Evil One no chance to say anything against them,

Judges 12:9

He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters whom he sent to other places, and he got thirty wives from other places for his sons. And he was judge of Israel for seven years.

Judges 14:2

And when he came back he said to his father and mother, I have seen a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines: get her now for me for my wife.