Jeremiah 29:6

English Standard Version 2016

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.

Cross References

Judges 12:9

He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters he gave in marriage outside his clan, and thirty daughters he brought in from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.

Genesis 29:19

Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me.”

Genesis 24:51

Behold, Rebekah is before you; take her and go, and let her be the wife of your master’s son, as the Lord has spoken.”

Genesis 21:21

He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

1 Timothy 5:14

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.

Judges 14:2

Then he came up and told his father and mother, “I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. Now get her for me as my wife.”

Genesis 34:4

So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this girl for my wife.”

Genesis 9:7

And you, be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.”

Genesis 24:60

And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become thousands of ten thousands, and may your offspring possess the gate of those who hate him!”

Exodus 5:11

Go and get your straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced in the least.’”