Jeremiah 29:6

Translations

Modern

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.

Traditional

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.

Literal

Take wives and beget sons and daughters, and take for your sons wives, and your daughters give to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters and multiply there, so that you shall not decrease.

Latin

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.

Original

Hebrew

English

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.

Notes

Jeremiah 29:5–7

Jeremiah encouraged the exiled people to prepare for a long stay in Babylon. God wanted them to become productive citizens, caring for and praying to the Lord for the well-being of the Babylonian communities where they lived. This would help their population grow. They should not listen to false prophecies like Hananiah's, which promised a quick return home.

Jeremiah 29:1–23

Jeremiah sent a letter to the Hebrew exiles in Babylon. People read his letter many times in different settlements to reach all the scattered Israelites.

Theme notes and profiles

Jeremiah Nebuchadnezzar II The Written Word

Events

Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC

Related verses

Judges 12:9
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 24:3–4
…and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am dwelling,
Genesis 28:1–4
So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.
Genesis 29:19
Laban replied, “Better that I give her to you than to another. Stay here with me.”
Genesis 24:51
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 21:21
And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
1 Corinthians 7:36–38
However, if someone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his betrothed, and if she is beyond her youth and they ought to marry, let him do as he wishes; he is not sinning; they should get married.
Genesis 34:4
So Shechem told his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as a wife.”
Genesis 1:27–28
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Judges 1:12–14
And Caleb said, “To the man who strikes down Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give my daughter Acsah in marriage.”
Genesis 9:7
But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”
1 Timothy 5:14
So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for slander.

Glossary

Barrenness Book of Jeremiah

Topics

Babylon: The Jews Exhorted to be Subject To, and Settle In Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Blessing and Restoration

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