Jeremiah 29:6
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.
Context
This verse from Jeremiah Chapter 29 connects to 10 cross-references. Jeremiah's letter to the exiles in Babylon: build houses, plant gardens, seek the welfare of the city to which you have been taken, and pray for it. After seventy years God will bring them back with plans for welfare and …
Other Translations
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.
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;
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.
Cross References
They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be …
Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.
And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath …
And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for …
And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a …
And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath–sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.
So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.
But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her …
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to …
And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.