Jeremiah 29:6
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6 Marry and have children. Then find spouses for them so that you may have many grandchildren. Multiply! Do not dwindle away!
Judges 12:9
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9 He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He sent his daughters to marry men outside his clan, and he brought in thirty young women from outside his clan to marry his sons. Ibzan judged Israel for seven years.
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Genesis 29:19
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19 “Agreed!” Laban replied. “I’d rather give her to you than to anyone else. Stay and work with me.”
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Genesis 28:1-4
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28 So Isaac called for Jacob, blessed him, and said, “You must not marry any of these Canaanite women. 2 Instead, go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your grandfather Bethuel, and marry one of your uncle Laban’s daughters. 3 May God Almighty[a] bless you and give you many children. And may your descendants multiply and become many nations! 4 May God pass on to you and your descendants[b] the blessings he promised to Abraham. May you own this land where you are now living as a foreigner, for God gave this land to Abraham.”
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Genesis 24:51
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51 Here is Rebekah; take her and go. Yes, let her be the wife of your master’s son, as the Lord has directed.”
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Genesis 24:3-4
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3 Swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not allow my son to marry one of these local Canaanite women. 4 Go instead to my homeland, to my relatives, and find a wife there for my son Isaac.”
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Genesis 21:21
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21 and he settled in the wilderness of Paran. His mother arranged for him to marry a woman from the land of Egypt.
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1 Timothy 5:14
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14 So I advise these younger widows to marry again, have children, and take care of their own homes. Then the enemy will not be able to say anything against them.
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1 Corinthians 7:36-38
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36 But if a man thinks that he’s treating his fiancée improperly and will inevitably give in to his passion, let him marry her as he wishes. It is not a sin. 37 But if he has decided firmly not to marry and there is no urgency and he can control his passion, he does well not to marry. 38 So the person who marries his fiancée does well, and the person who doesn’t marry does even better.
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Jeremiah 16:2-4
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2 “Do not get married or have children in this place. 3 For this is what the Lord says about the children born here in this city and about their mothers and fathers: 4 They will die from terrible diseases. No one will mourn for them or bury them, and they will lie scattered on the ground like manure. They will die from war and famine, and their bodies will be food for the vultures and wild animals.”
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Judges 14:2
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2 When he returned home, he told his father and mother, “A young Philistine woman in Timnah caught my eye. I want to marry her. Get her for me.”
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Judges 1:12-14
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12 Caleb said, “I will give my daughter Acsah in marriage to the one who attacks and captures Kiriath-sepher.” 13 Othniel, the son of Caleb’s younger brother, Kenaz, was the one who conquered it, so Acsah became Othniel’s wife.
14 When Acsah married Othniel, she urged him[a] to ask her father for a field. As she got down off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What’s the matter?”
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- 1:14 Greek version and Latin Vulgate read he urged her.
Genesis 34:4
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4 He said to his father, Hamor, “Get me this young girl. I want to marry her.”
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Genesis 9:7
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7 Now be fruitful and multiply, and repopulate the earth.”
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Genesis 1:27-28
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27 So God created human beings[a] in his own image.
In the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
28 Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.”
Footnotes
- 1:27 Or the man; Hebrew reads ha-adam.
Genesis 24:60
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60 They gave her this blessing as she parted:
“Our sister, may you become
the mother of many millions!
May your descendants be strong
and conquer the cities of their enemies.”
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