Jeremiah 29:6

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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 took a wife for him from 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

And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, be 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 any other man; stay with me.”

Genesis 34:4

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

Genesis 9:7

And you, be fruitful and multiply, bring forth abundantly on the earth and multiply in it.”

Exodus 5:11

Go yourselves, get your straw 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, rule their households, and give the enemy no occasion to revile us.

Judges 12:9

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

Judges 14:2

Then he came up, and told his father and mother, “I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.”