Jeremiah 29:6

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.

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  • Jer 16:2-4 : 2 You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place. 3 For thus says Yahweh concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became the father of them in this land: 4 They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.
  • 1 Cor 7:36-38 : 36 But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn't sin. Let them marry. 37 But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well. 38 So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn't give her in marriage does better.
  • 1 Tim 5:14 : 14 I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.
  • Gen 1:27-28 : 27 God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
  • Gen 9:7 : 7 Be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."
  • Gen 21:21 : 21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
  • Gen 24:3-4 : 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. 4 But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac."
  • Gen 24:51 : 51 Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as Yahweh has spoken."
  • Gen 24:60 : 60 They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, "Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them."
  • Gen 28:1-4 : 1 Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. 2 Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother. 3 May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples, 4 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham."
  • Gen 29:19 : 19 Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."
  • Gen 34:4 : 4 Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this young lady as a wife."
  • Judg 1:12-14 : 12 Caleb said, "He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife." 13 Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife. 14 It happened, when she came [to him], that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she alighted from off her donkey; and Caleb said to her, "What would you like?"
  • Judg 12:9 : 9 He had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he sent abroad, and thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons. He judged Israel seven years.
  • Judg 14:2 : 2 He came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, "I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me as wife."

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    5 Build houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

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    78%

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

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  • Ezra 9:12
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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.'

  • Gen 9:7
    75%

    7 Be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."

  • Jer 29:7
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    7 Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in its peace you shall have peace.

  • Exod 34:16
    73%

    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.

  • Gen 34:9
    73%

    9 Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

  • Judg 3:6
    73%

    6 and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.

  • Gen 28:2-3
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    72%

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  • Deut 3:19
    72%

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  • Gen 1:28
    72%

    28 God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

  • Deut 28:41
    72%

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

  • Gen 24:38
    72%

    38 but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.'

  • Deut 28:30
    71%

    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.

  • Deut 7:13
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    13 and he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.

  • Gen 6:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

    2 that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.

  • 1 Chr 14:3
    71%

    3 David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David became the father of more sons and daughters.

  • Gen 9:1
    71%

    1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

  • Ezra 10:44
    71%

    44 All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

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  • Deut 7:3
    71%

    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.

  • Num 36:8
    71%

    8 Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers.

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    70%

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    70%

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  • Deut 11:21
    70%

    21 that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.

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    70%

    37 sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.

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    70%

    18 Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

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    70%

    3 Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.

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    70%

    21 "These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.

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    70%

    7 'They will take away your sons who will issue from you, whom you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in the king of Babylon's palace.'"

  • Gen 8:16-17
    2 verses
    69%

    16 "Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

    17 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."

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    69%

    4 But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac."

  • Deut 17:17
    69%

    17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

  • Deut 28:4
    69%

    4 You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.

  • 2 Sam 5:13
    69%

    13 David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron; and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.

  • Exod 21:10
    69%

    10 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

  • Gen 1:22
    69%

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

  • Deut 29:11
    69%

    11 your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;