Jeremiah 16:2

World English Bible (2000)

You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 7:26-27 : 26 I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is. 27 Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife.
  • Gen 19:14 : 14 Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
  • Luke 21:23 : 23 Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people.
  • Luke 23:29 : 29 For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'
  • Matt 24:19 : 19 But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!

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  • Jer 16:1
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    1 The word of Yahweh came also to me, saying,

  • Exod 34:16-17
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    16 and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

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  • Jer 29:6
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    6 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.

  • Deut 7:3
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    3 neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.

  • Deut 28:41
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    41 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.

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    12 Now therefore don't give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.'

  • Lev 18:15-19
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    15 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son's wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness.

    16 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness.

    17 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. You shall not take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are near kinswomen: it is wickedness.

    18 "'You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.

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  • Ezek 44:22
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    22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

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    30 You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use its fruit.

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    16 Now therefore listen to the word of Yahweh: 'You say, Don't prophesy against Israel, and don't preach against the house of Isaac.'

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    29 "'Don't profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.

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    30 and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

  • Lev 21:13-15
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    13 "'He shall take a wife in her virginity.

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    17 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

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    30 A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.

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    3 I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.

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    32 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!

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    26 No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

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    5 Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in the assembly of Yahweh.

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