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.
KJV
Accipite uxores, et generate filios et filias : et date filiis vestris uxores, et filias vestras date viris, et pariant filios et filias : et multiplicamini ibi, et nolite esse pauci numero.
Vulgate
ἕως τίνος κόψεις, ἡ μάχαιρα τοῦ κυρίου; ἕως τίνος οὐχ ἡσυχάσεις; ἀποκατάστηθι εἰς τὸν κολεόν σου, ἀνάπαυσαι καὶ ἐπάρθητι.
LXX
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.
ASV
קְח֣וּ נָשִׁ֗ים וְ/הוֹלִידוּ֮ בָּנִ֣ים וּ/בָנוֹת֒ וּ/קְח֨וּ לִ/בְנֵי/כֶ֜ם נָשִׁ֗ים וְ/אֶת בְּנֽוֹתֵי/כֶם֙ תְּנ֣וּ לַֽ/אֲנָשִׁ֔ים וְ/תֵלַ֖דְנָה בָּנִ֣ים וּ/בָנ֑וֹת וּ/רְבוּ שָׁ֖ם וְ/אַל תִּמְעָֽטוּ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 7:36 — But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
- 1Tim 5:14 — I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
- Gen 1:27 — So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
- Gen 9:7 — And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
- Gen 21:21 — And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
- Gen 24:3 — And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
- Gen 24:51 — Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master’s son’s wife, as the LORD hath spoken.
- Gen 28:1 — And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
- Gen 29:19 — And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
- Gen 34:4 — And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.
- Jer 16:2 — Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.
- Judg 1:12 — And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.
- Judg 12:9 — And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
- Judg 14:2 — And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.