Jeremiah 29:6

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Take 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.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may have sons and daughters; that you may increase there and not diminish.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    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.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    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.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    take you wyues, to beare you sonnes and doughters: prouyde wyues for youre sonnes, & hu?bondes for youre doughters: that they maye get sonnes & doughters, and that ye maye multiplie there. Laboure not to be fewe,

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Take you wiues, and beget sonnes and daughters, and take wiues for your sonnes, and giue your daughters to husbands, that they may beare sonnes and daughters, that ye may bee increased there, and not diminished.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Take you wiues to beare you sonnes and daughters, prouide wiues for your sonnes, and husbandes for your daughters, that they may get sonnes & daughters: and that ye may multiplie there, and decrease not.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply you there, and don't be diminished.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take for your sons wives, and your daughters give to husbands, and they bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and ye are not few;

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Take wives and have sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may have sons and daughters; and be increased in number there and do not become less.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Take wives, and father 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 don't be diminished.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 16:2-4 : 2 You are not to marry or have sons or daughters in this place. 3 For 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: 4 They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will lie like dung on the ground. They will perish by the sword and famine, and their corpses will be food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.
  • 1 Cor 7:36-38 : 36 If anyone is worried that he might not be acting honorably toward the virgin he is engaged to, and if his passions are strong and he feels it must be so, let him do as he wants. He is not sinning; they should marry. 37 But the man who has settled the matter in his own mind, who is under no compulsion but has control over his own will, and who has made up his mind not to marry the virgin—this man also does the right thing. 38 So then, the one who marries the virgin does right, but the one who does not marry her does better.
  • 1 Tim 5:14 : 14 Therefore, I desire that younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.
  • Gen 1:27-28 : 27 So God created mankind in his own image; in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them and said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and every living creature that moves on the ground.'
  • Gen 9:7 : 7 But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out over the earth and multiply upon it.
  • Gen 21:21 : 21 While living in the wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.
  • Gen 24:3-4 : 3 I 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. 4 Instead, go to my country and my kindred to choose a wife for my son Isaac.
  • Gen 24:51 : 51 Here is Rebekah; take her and go. Let her become the wife of your master's son, as the Lord has spoken.
  • Gen 24:60 : 60 They blessed Rebekah and said to her, "Our sister, may you become thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gate of their enemies."
  • Gen 28:1-4 : 1 Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, saying, 'Do not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.' 2 Arise, go to Paddan-Aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and take a wife for yourself from there, from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother. 3 May God Almighty bless you, make you fruitful, and multiply you, so that you become a community of peoples. 4 May he give to you and your descendants with you the blessing of Abraham, that you may take possession of the land where you now live as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.
  • Gen 29:19 : 19 Laban replied, 'It is better for me to give her to you than to another man. Stay here with me.'
  • Gen 34:4 : 4 Shechem said to his father Hamor, "Get me this girl as my wife."
  • Judg 1:12-14 : 12 Caleb said, "I will give my daughter Achsah in marriage to the one who attacks and captures Kiriath-sepher." 13 Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, captured it, and Caleb gave him his daughter Achsah in marriage. 14 When she came to him, she persuaded him to ask her father for a field. She got down from her donkey, and Caleb asked her, "What do you want?"
  • Judg 12:9 : 9 He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He sent his daughters outside the family for marriage and brought in thirty daughters from outside for his sons. He judged Israel for seven years.
  • Judg 14:2 : 2 He returned and told his father and mother, 'I have seen a woman in Timnah from the daughters of the Philistines. Now get her for me as a wife.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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    5Build houses and settle in them. Plant gardens and eat their fruit.

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    2 verses
    78%

    2You are not to marry or have sons or daughters in this place.

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    77%

    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.

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    75%

    7But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out over the earth and multiply upon it.

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    74%

    7Seek the welfare of the city where I have exiled you and pray to the LORD on its behalf, because its welfare determines your welfare.

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    73%

    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.

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    73%

    9Make marriages with us: give your daughters to us and take our daughters for yourselves.

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    73%

    6They took the daughters of these peoples as wives for themselves, gave their own daughters to the sons of these peoples, and worshiped their gods.

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    2 verses
    72%

    2Arise, go to Paddan-Aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and take a wife for yourself from there, from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

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  • Deut 3:19
    72%

    19'But your wives, children, and livestock—I know you have much livestock—may stay in the towns I have given you.'

  • Gen 1:28
    72%

    28God blessed them and said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and every living creature that moves on the ground.'

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    72%

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

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    72%

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

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    71%

    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.

  • Deut 7:13
    71%

    13He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land—your grain, your new wine, and your fresh oil—the young of your livestock and the calves of your herds in the land that He swore to your ancestors to give you.

  • Gen 6:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1When mankind began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,

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    71%

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    71%

    1God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, 'Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth.'

  • Ezra 10:44
    71%

    44All these had married foreign women, and some of them had even fathered children by them.

  • Isa 54:2
    71%

    2Enlarge the place of your tent; stretch out the curtains of your dwellings—do not hold back! Lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes.

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    71%

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

  • Num 36:8
    71%

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    70%

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    70%

    16Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters for ourselves; we will dwell among you and become one people.

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    70%

    21so that your days and the days of your children may be prolonged in the land that the LORD swore to give to your ancestors, as long as the heavens are above the earth.

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    70%

    37They sowed fields and planted vineyards, which yielded a fruitful harvest.

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    70%

    18May your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth.

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    70%

    3Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.

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    70%

    21"These men are at peace with us. Let them dwell in the land and trade in it, for the land is spacious enough for them. Let us take their daughters as wives, and let us give them our daughters.

  • Isa 39:7
    70%

    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.

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    2 verses
    69%

    16Leave the ark, you and your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

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    69%

    4Instead, go to my country and my kindred to choose a wife for my son Isaac.

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    69%

    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.

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    69%

    4Blessed will be the fruit of your womb, the produce of your land, and the offspring of your livestock—including the young of your cattle and the increase of your flocks.

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    69%

    13After coming from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.

  • Exod 21:10
    69%

    10If he takes another wife, he must not diminish her food, clothing, or marital rights.

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    69%

    22God blessed them and said, 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.'

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    69%

    11You are entering into the covenant of the LORD your God and His oath, which the LORD your God is making with you today.