Jeremiah 29:6

New Century Version

Get married and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons, and let your daughters be married so they also may have sons and daughters. Have many children in Babylon; don’t become fewer in number.

Cross References

Genesis 21:21

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

Genesis 24:51

Rebekah is yours. Take her and go. Let her marry your master’s son as the Lord has commanded.”

Genesis 24:60

They blessed Rebekah and said, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of people, and may your descendants capture the cities of their enemies.”

Genesis 29:19

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

Genesis 34:4

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

Genesis 9:7

“As for you, Noah, I want you and your family to have many children, to grow in number on the earth, and to become many.”

Exodus 5:11

Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it. But you must make as many bricks as you made before.”

1 Timothy 5:14

So I want the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their homes. Then no enemy will have any reason to criticize them.

Judges 12:9

He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He let his daughters marry men who were not in his family group, and he brought thirty women who were not in his tribe to be wives for his sons. Ibzan judged Israel for seven years.

Judges 14:2

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