Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters: and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons and daughters: and be ye multiplied there, and be not few in number. Take ye. Jeremiah 16:2-4 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons and daughters in this place. . . . Genesis 1:27,28 And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them. . . . Genesis 9:7 But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth and fill it. 1 Timothy 5:14 I will, therefore, that the younger should marry, bear children, be mistresses of families, give no occasion to the adversary to speak evil. take wives. Genesis 21:21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan, and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt. Genesis 24:3,4,51,60 That I may make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that thou take not a wife for my son, of the daughters of the Chanaanites, among whom I dwell: . . . Genesis 28:1-4 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, saying: Take not a wife of the stock of Chanaan: . . . Genesis 29:19 Laban answered: It is better that I give her to thee than to another man; stay with me. Genesis 34:4 And going to Hemor his father, he said: Get me this damsel to wife. Judges 1:12-14 And Caleb said: He that shall take Cariath-Sepher, and lay it waste, to him will I give my daughter Axa to wife. . . . Judges 12:9 He had thirty sons, and as many daughters, whom he sent abroad, and gave to husbands, and took wives for his sons, of the same number, bringing them into his house. And he judged Israel seven years: Judges 14:2 He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying: I saw a woman in Thamnatha of the daughters of the Philistines: I beseech you, take her for me to wife. 1 Corinthians 7:36-38 But if any man think that he seemeth dishonoured with regard to his virgin, for that she is above the age, and it must so be: let him do what he will. He sinneth not if she marry. . . . Context Jeremiah's Letter to the Exiles…5Build ye houses, and dwell in them: and plant orchards, and eat the fruit of them. 6Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters: and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons and daughters: and be ye multiplied there, and be not few in number.7And seek the peace of the city, to which I have caused you to be carried away captives; and pray to the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall be your peace.… Cross References Exodus 5:11 Go, and gather it where you can find it; neither shall any thing of your work be diminished. Jeremiah 16:2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons and daughters in this place. Lexicon Takeקְח֣וּ (qə·ḥū) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 3947: To take wives נָשִׁ֗ים (nā·šîm) Noun - feminine plural Strong's Hebrew 802: Woman, wife, female and have וְהוֹלִידוּ֮ (wə·hō·w·lî·ḏū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage sons בָּנִ֣ים (bā·nîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son and daughters. וּבָנוֹת֒ (ū·ḇā·nō·wṯ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural Strong's Hebrew 1323: A daughter Take וּקְח֨וּ (ū·qə·ḥū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 3947: To take wives נָשִׁ֗ים (nā·šîm) Noun - feminine plural Strong's Hebrew 802: Woman, wife, female for your sons לִבְנֵיכֶ֜ם (liḇ·nê·ḵem) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son and give תְּנ֣וּ (tə·nū) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 5414: To give, put, set your daughters בְּנֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ (bə·nō·w·ṯê·ḵem) Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 1323: A daughter in marriage, לַֽאֲנָשִׁ֔ים (la·’ă·nā·šîm) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 582: Man, mankind so that they too may have וְתֵלַ֖דְנָה (wə·ṯê·laḏ·nāh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person feminine plural Strong's Hebrew 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage sons בָּנִ֣ים (bā·nîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son and daughters. וּבָנ֑וֹת (ū·ḇā·nō·wṯ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural Strong's Hebrew 1323: A daughter Multiply וּרְבוּ־ (ū·rə·ḇū-) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 7235: To be or become much, many or great there; שָׁ֖ם (šām) Adverb Strong's Hebrew 8033: There, then, thither do not וְאַל־ (wə·’al-) Conjunctive waw | Adverb Strong's Hebrew 408: Not decrease. תִּמְעָֽטוּ׃ (tim·‘ā·ṭū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 4591: To pare off, lessen, in, to be, small, few Additional Translations 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.Take you 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 you may be increased there, and not diminished. 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. and take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and be multiplied, and be not diminished. 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. 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 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. 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. 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; Jump to Previous Bear Beget Daughters Decrease Diminished Fathers Few Find Husbands Increase Increased Less Marriage Marry Multiply WivesJump to Next Bear Beget Daughters Decrease Diminished Fathers Few Find Husbands Increase Increased Less Marriage Marry Multiply WivesExternal Links Jeremiah 29:6 NIVJeremiah 29:6 NLT Jeremiah 29:6 ESV Jeremiah 29:6 NASB Jeremiah 29:6 ASV Jeremiah 29:6 Bible Apps Jeremiah 29:6 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 29:6 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 29:6 French Bible Jeremiah 29:6 German Bible Alphabetical: and bear become daughters decrease do fathers find for give have husbands in Increase marriage Marry may multiply not number of so sons Take that the there they to too wives your OT Prophets: Jeremiah 29:6 Take wives and father sons and daughters (Jer.) 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