Jeremiah 29:6

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

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

Genesis 21:21

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

Genesis 24:51

Look, 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

And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “May you, our sister, become thousands of myriads; may your offspring gain possession of the gates of their foes.”

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 34:4

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

Genesis 9:7

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

Exodus 5:11

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

1 Timothy 5:14

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, and manage their households, so as to give the adversary no occasion to revile us.

Judges 12:9

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

Judges 14:2

Then he came up, and told his father and mother, “I saw a Philistine woman at Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.”