Jeremiah 29:6

The Scriptures 2009

Take wives and bring forth sons and daughters. And take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons and daughters, and be increased there, and not diminished.

Cross References

Genesis 21:21

And he dwelt in the Wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Mitsrayim.

Genesis 24:51

See, Riḇqah is before you. Take her and go, and let her be your master’s son’s wife, as יהוה has spoken.

Genesis 24:60

And they blessed Riḇqah and said to her, “Let our sister become the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gates of those who hate them.”

Genesis 29:19

And Laḇan said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”

Genesis 34:4

And Sheḵem spoke to his father Ḥamor, saying, “Take this girl for me for a wife.”

Genesis 9:7

“As for you, be fruitful and increase, bring forth teemingly in the earth and increase in it.”

Exodus 5:11

‘Go, take straw for yourselves, where ever you find it, for your work shall not be diminished.’ ”

1 Timothy 5:14

So I resolve that the younger widows marry, bear children, manage the house, giving no occasion to the adversary for reviling.

Judges 12:9

And he came to have thirty sons and thirty daughters – he sent abroad and brought in thirty daughters for his sons. And he ruled Yisra’ĕl seven years.

Judges 14:2

And he went up and informed his father and mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. And now, take her for me for a wife.”