He lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Jeremiah 29:6 - Revised Standard Version 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. 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. |
He lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
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.”
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!”
Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me.”
So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this maiden for my wife.”
And you, be fruitful and multiply, bring forth abundantly on the earth and multiply in it.”
Go yourselves, get your straw wherever you can find it; but your work will not be lessened in the least.’ ”
So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, rule their households, and give the enemy no occasion to revile us.
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.
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.”