Jeremiah 29:6

Modern English Version

Take wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters; so that you may increase there and not diminish.

Cross References

Genesis 21:21

He lived in the Wilderness of Paran, and his mother found a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

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 24:60

They blessed Rebekah and said to her, “May you, our sister, become the mother of thousands of ten thousands; and may your descendants possess the gate of those who hate them.”

Genesis 29:19

Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”

Genesis 34:4

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

Genesis 9:7

And as for you, be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly in the earth and multiply in it.”

Exodus 5:11

Go, get straw where you can find it, yet nothing of your work shall be diminished.’ ”

1 Timothy 5:14

Therefore I desire that the younger women marry, bear children, manage the house, and give no occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

Judges 12:9

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

Judges 14:2

He came back up and told his father and mother, “I have seen a woman in Timnah from the daughters of the Philistines; now get her for me as a wife.”