Jeremiah 29:6

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.

Cross References

Genesis 21:21

And he lived in the desert of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Genesis 24:51

Lo, Rebekah is in your sight. Take her and continue on, and let her be the wife of the son of your lord, just as the Lord has spoken."

Genesis 24:60

wishing prosperity for their sister, by saying: "You are our sister. May you increase to thousands of thousands. And may your offspring possess the gates of their enemies."

Genesis 29:19

Laban responded, "It is better that I give her to you than to another man; remain with me."

Genesis 34:4

And going on to Hamor, his father, he said, "Obtain this girl for me as a mate."

Genesis 9:7

But as for you: increase and multiply, and go forth upon the earth and fulfill it."

Exodus 5:11

Go, and collect it wherever you are able to find it. Neither will anything of your work be diminished."

1 Timothy 5:14

Therefore, I want the younger women to marry, to procreate children, to be mothers of families, to provide no ready opportunity for the adversary to speak evil.

Judges 12:9

He had thirty sons, and the same number of daughters, whom he sent away to be given to husbands. And he accepted wives for his sons of the same number, bringing them into his house. And he judged Israel for seven years.

Judges 14:2

he went up, and he told his father and his mother, saying: "I saw a woman in Timnah from the daughters of the Philistines. I ask that you take her to me as wife."