Jeremiah 29:6

New American Bible - revised edition

Take wives and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters. Increase there; do not decrease.

Cross References

Genesis 21:21

He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt. The Covenant at Beer-sheba.

Genesis 24:51

Here is Rebekah, right in front of you; take her and go, that she may become the wife of your master’s son, as the Lord has said.”

Genesis 24:60

They blessed Rebekah and said: “Sister, may you grow into thousands of myriads; And may your descendants gain possession of the gates of their enemies!”

Genesis 29:19

Laban replied, “It is better to give her to you than to another man. Stay with me.”

Genesis 34:4

Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Get me this young woman for a wife.”

Genesis 9:7

Be fertile, then, and multiply; abound on earth and subdue it.

Exodus 5:11

Go and get your own straw from wherever you can find it. But there will not be the slightest reduction in your work.’”

1 Timothy 5:14

So I would like younger widows to marry, have children, and manage a home, so as to give the adversary no pretext for maligning us.

Judges 12:9

He had thirty sons and thirty daughters whom he gave in marriage outside the family, while bringing in thirty wives for his sons from outside the family. He judged Israel for seven years.

Judges 14:2

On his return he told his father and mother, “I saw in Timnah a woman, a Philistine. Get her for me as a wife.”