Jeremiah 29:6

Easy To Read Version

Get married and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons. And let your daughters be married. Do that so they also may have sons and daughters. Have many children and grow in number in Babylon. Don’t become fewer in number.

Cross References

Genesis 21:21

His mother found a wife for him in Egypt. They continued living in the Paran desert.

Genesis 24:51

Here is Rebekah. Take her and go. Let her marry your master’s son. This is what the Lord wants.”

Genesis 24:60

While Rebekah was leaving they said to her,

Genesis 29:19

Laban said, “It would be better for her to marry you than someone else. So stay with me.”

Genesis 34:4

Shechem told his father, “Please get this girl for me so that I can marry her.”

Genesis 9:7

“Noah, you and your sons should have many children. Fill the earth with your people.”

Exodus 5:11

You must go and get the straw for yourselves. So go and find straw. But you must still make as many bricks as you made before.”

1 Timothy 5:14

So I want the younger widows to marry, have children, and take care of their homes. If they do this, then our enemy will not have any reason to criticize them.

Judges 12:9

Ibzan had 30 sons and 30 daughters. He told his 30 daughters to marry men that were not his relatives. And he found 30 women that were not his relatives, and his sons married these women. Ibzan was a judge for the people of Israel for seven years.

Judges 14:2

When he got back home he said to his father and mother, “I saw a Philistine woman in Timnah. I want you to get her for me. I want to marry her.”