Jeremiah 29:6
Take wives and have sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease.
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Take ye.

Jeremiah 16:2-4
"You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place." . . .

Genesis 1:27, 28
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. . . .

Genesis 9:7
But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it."

1 Timothy 5:14
So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, so they will not give the adversary an occasion for slander.

take wives.

Genesis 21:21
And while he was dwelling in the wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Genesis 24:3, 4, 51, 60
and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am dwelling, . . .

Genesis 28:1-4
So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. "Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women, " he commanded. . . .

Genesis 29:19
Laban replied, "Better that I give her to you than to another. Stay here with me."

Genesis 34:4
So Shechem told his father Hamor, "Get me this girl as a wife."

Judges 1:12-14
And Caleb said, "To the man who strikes down Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give my daughter Acsah in marriage." . . .

Judges 12:9
He had thirty sons, as well as thirty daughters whom he gave in marriage to men outside his clan; and for his sons he brought back thirty wives from elsewhere. Ibzan judged Israel seven years.

Judges 14:2
So he returned and told his father and his mother, "I have seen a daughter of the Philistines in Timnah. Now get her for me as a wife."

1 Corinthians 7:36-38
However, if someone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his betrothed, and if she is beyond her youth and they ought to marry, let him do as he wishes; he is not sinning; they should get married. . . .

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
'Take wives and become the fathers of sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there and do not decrease.

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Take wives and have sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and give your daughters to men in marriage so that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease.

International Standard Version
Take wives and father sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so they may have sons and daughters. Increase in numbers there, don't decrease.

NET Bible
Marry and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and allow your daughters get married so that they too can have sons and daughters. Grow in number; do not dwindle away.
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