Jeremiah 16:2

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You are not to marry or have sons or daughters in this place.

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  • 1 Cor 7:26-27 : 26 Because of the present distress, I think it is good for a person to remain as they are. 27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
  • Gen 19:14 : 14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters. He said, "Hurry and get out of this place, because the LORD is about to destroy the city!" But to his sons-in-law, he seemed to be joking.
  • Luke 21:23 : 23 Woe to those who are pregnant and nursing in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people.
  • Luke 23:29 : 29 For look, the days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'
  • Matt 24:19 : 19 Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!

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  • Jer 16:3
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    3For this is what the LORD says about the sons and daughters born in this place, as well as their mothers who bear them and their fathers who father them in this land:

  • Jer 16:1
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    1Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • Exod 34:16-17
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    16And when you take some of their daughters as wives for your sons, their daughters will lead your sons to prostitute themselves to their gods.

    17Do not make any molten gods for yourselves.

  • Jer 29:6
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    6Take wives and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage so they may have sons and daughters. Multiply there, and do not decrease.

  • Deut 7:3
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    3Do not intermarry with them: do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

  • Deut 28:41
    76%

    41You will have sons and daughters, but they will not remain with you, because they will go into captivity.

  • Ezra 9:12
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    12So now, do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters for your sons. Do not seek their peace or prosperity forever, so that you may be strong, eat the good things of the land, and leave it to your children as an inheritance forever.

  • Lev 18:15-19
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    15Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you must not uncover her nakedness.

    16Do not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would dishonor your brother.

    17Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover their nakedness; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness.

    18Do not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.

    19Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during the uncleanness of her monthly period.

  • Ezek 44:22
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    22They must not marry widows or divorced women, but only virgins of Israelite descent or widows who were married to priests.

  • Deut 28:30
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    30You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not enjoy its fruit.

  • Amos 7:16-17
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    16Now therefore, hear the word of the Lord: You say, 'Do not prophesy against Israel and do not preach against the house of Isaac.'

    17Therefore, this is what the Lord says: 'Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, your sons and daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be divided up with a measuring line, and you yourself will die in a polluted land. Israel will surely go into exile away from their homeland.'

  • Lev 19:29
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    29Do not degrade your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will become filled with wickedness.

  • Lev 21:7
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    7They must not marry a woman who is a prostitute or has been profaned, nor may they marry a divorced woman, because priests are holy to their God.

  • Neh 10:30
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    30joined together with their relatives and nobles, committing themselves with a curse and an oath to follow the Law of God, given through Moses, the servant of God, and to obey carefully all the commands, regulations, and decrees of the LORD our Lord.

  • Lev 21:13-15
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    13He must marry a woman who is a virgin.

    14He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute. He may only marry a virgin from among his own people.

    15He must not defile his descendants among his people, because I am the LORD who sanctifies him.

  • Deut 23:17
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    17Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in whichever town he prefers. Do not oppress him.

  • Jer 16:7-9
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    7No one will break bread for the bereaved to comfort them for the dead. Nor will anyone offer them a cup of consolation for their father or mother.

    8Do not enter a house where feasting is taking place to sit with them, to eat and drink.

    9For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to silence in this place—in your sight and in your days—the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bridegroom and the bride.

  • Ezek 16:20
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    20You even took the sons and daughters you bore to me and sacrificed them to the idols as food. Was your prostitution not enough?

  • Deut 17:17
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    17He must not take many wives for himself, or his heart will be led astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.

  • Gen 24:37-38
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    37My master made me swear an oath, saying, 'You must not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I live.

    38Instead, you must go to my father's household and to my family to take a wife for my son.'

  • Jer 22:30
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    30This is what the LORD says: Record this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime, for none of his offspring will succeed in sitting on the throne of David or ruling again in Judah.

  • Jer 14:16
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    16And the people to whom they are prophesying will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters. I will pour out their wickedness upon them.

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    3I want you to swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not choose a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living.

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32You adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!

  • Exod 23:26
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    26None will miscarry or be barren in your land, and I will fulfill the number of your days.

  • Mic 2:5
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    5Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot.

  • Jer 35:7
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    7'You must not build houses, sow seed, plant vineyards, or own any of these things, but instead, live in tents all your days so that you may live long in the land where you sojourn.'

  • Isa 39:7
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    7Some of your own descendants, who will issue from you and whom you will father, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

  • Lev 26:29
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    29You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.

  • Judg 21:18
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    18'But we cannot give them wives from our own daughters, for we have sworn with a curse that anyone who gives a wife to Benjamin will be cursed.'

  • Lev 20:21
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    21If a man marries his brother's wife, it is impurity. He has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

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    56The most tender and delicate woman among you, so refined that she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she loves, her son, and her daughter.

  • Exod 22:24
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    24If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you must not act as a creditor to him; do not charge him interest.

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    45You are a true daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children. And you are a sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

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    16Son of man, behold, I am about to take from you the delight of your eyes with a single blow. But you shall not mourn or weep, and your tears shall not flow.

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    61Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your older and younger sisters. I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of your covenant.

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    16Do not act corruptly by making for yourselves a carved image in the form of any figure, whether male or female.

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    18And some of your descendants, your own sons who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.'