Jeremiah 29:6 “Take wives and have sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and g…”

Jeremiah 29:6

Take wives and have sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James 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.

World English Bible

Take wives and father sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there, and don’t be diminished.

American 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: and multiply ye there, and be not diminished.

Geneva Bible 1599

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.

Darby Translation

Take 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 there, and be not diminished.

Young's Literal Translation

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;

Bible in Basic English

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.

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Cross references

“Take ye”

Jeremiah 16:2–4 Genesis 9:7 1 Timothy 5:14 Genesis 1:27 Genesis 1:28

Jeremiah 16:2–4 · BSB

“You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.”

Genesis 9:7 · BSB

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

1 Timothy 5:14 · BSB

So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for slander.

Genesis 1:27 · BSB

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Genesis 1:28 · BSB

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”

“take wives”

Genesis 21:21 Genesis 24:51 Genesis 28:1–4 Genesis 29:19 Judges 12:9 Genesis 34:4

Genesis 21:21 · BSB

And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Genesis 24:51 · BSB

Rebekah is here before you. Take her and go, and let her become the wife of your master’s son, just as the LORD has decreed.”

Genesis 28:1–4 · BSB

So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.

Genesis 29:19 · BSB

Laban replied, “Better that I give her to you than to another. Stay here with me.”

Judges 12:9 · BSB

He had thirty sons, as well as thirty daughters whom he gave in marriage to men outside his clan; and for his sons he brought back thirty wives from elsewhere. Ibzan judged Israel seven years.

Genesis 34:4 · BSB

So Shechem told his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as a wife.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5“Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat their produce.

7Seek the prosperity of the city to which I have sent you as exiles. Pray to the LORD on its behalf, for if it prospers, you too will prosper.”

Read Jeremiah 29