His mother found a wife for him in Egypt. They continued living in the Paran desert.
Jeremiah 29:6 - Easy To Read Version Get married and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons. And let your daughters be married. Do that so they also may have sons and daughters. Have many children and grow in number in Babylon. Don’t become fewer in number. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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 be diminished. American Standard Version (1901) Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters: and multiply ye there, and be not diminished. Common English Bible Get married and have children; then help your sons find wives and your daughters find husbands in order that they too may have children. Increase in number there so that you don’t dwindle away. Catholic Public Domain Version Take wives, and conceive sons and daughters. And give wives to your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons and daughters. And be multiplied there, and do not choose to be few in number. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Take ye wives and beget sons and daughters: and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons and daughters: and be ye multiplied there, and be not few in number. |
His mother found a wife for him in Egypt. They continued living in the Paran desert.
Here is Rebekah. Take her and go. Let her marry your master’s son. This is what the Lord wants.”
Laban said, “It would be better for her to marry you than someone else. So stay with me.”
Shechem told his father, “Please get this girl for me so that I can marry her.”
“Noah, you and your sons should have many children. Fill the earth with your people.”
You must go and get the straw for yourselves. So go and find straw. But you must still make as many bricks as you made before.”
So I want the younger widows to marry, have children, and take care of their homes. If they do this, then our enemy will not have any reason to criticize them.
Ibzan had 30 sons and 30 daughters. He told his 30 daughters to marry men that were not his relatives. And he found 30 women that were not his relatives, and his sons married these women. Ibzan was a judge for the people of Israel for seven years.
When he got back home he said to his father and mother, “I saw a Philistine woman in Timnah. I want you to get her for me. I want to marry her.”