Jeremiah 29:6

New English Translation

Marry and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and allow your daughters get married so that they too can have sons and daughters. Grow in number; do not dwindle away.

Cross References

Genesis 21:21

He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother found a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Genesis 24:51

Rebekah stands here before you. Take her and go so that she may become the wife of your master’s son, just as the Lord has decided.”

Genesis 24:60

They blessed Rebekah with these words: “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands of ten thousands! May your descendants possess the strongholds of their enemies.”

Genesis 29:19

Laban replied, “I’d rather give her to you than to another man. Stay with me.”

Genesis 34:4

Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Acquire this young girl as my wife.”

Genesis 9:7

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

Exodus 5:11

You go get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.’”

1 Timothy 5:14

So I want younger women to marry, raise children, and manage a household, in order to give the adversary no opportunity to vilify us.

Judges 12:9

He had thirty sons. He arranged for thirty of his daughters to be married outside his extended family, and he arranged for thirty young women to be brought from outside as wives for his sons. Ibzan led Israel for seven years;

Judges 14:2

When he got home, he told his father and mother, “A Philistine girl in Timnah has caught my eye. Now get her for my wife.”