Jeremiah 29:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Get married and have children, then help your sons find wives and help your daughters find husbands, so they can have children as well. I want your numbers to grow, not to get smaller.

Cross References

Genesis 24:51

Take Rebekah with you; she can marry your master's son, just as the LORD has said.”

Genesis 24:60

They gave Rebekah their blessing and said, “We pray that God will give you many children and grandchildren and that he will help them defeat their enemies.”

Genesis 29:19

Laban replied, “It's better for me to let you marry Rachel than for someone else to have her. So stay and work for me.”

Genesis 34:4

He even asked his father to get her for his wife.

Genesis 9:7

I want you and your descendants to have many children, so people will live everywhere on earth.

Exodus 5:11

Go and find your own straw wherever you can, but you must still make as many bricks as before.”

1 Timothy 5:14

I would prefer that young widows get married, have children, and look after their families. Then the enemy won't have any reason to say insulting things about us.

Judges 12:9

He had thirty daughters and thirty sons, and he let them all marry outside his clan. Ibzan was a leader for seven years,

Judges 14:2

When he got back home, he told his parents, “I saw a Philistine woman in Timnah, and I want to marry her. Get her for me!”