THEOSISJeremiah 29:6Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
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.
קְח֣וּ נָשִׁ֗ים וְהוֹלִידוּ֮ בָּנִ֣ים וּבָנוֹת֒ וּקְח֨וּ לִבְנֵיכֶ֜ם נָשִׁ֗ים וְאֶת־בְּנֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ תְּנ֣וּ לַֽאֲנָשִׁ֔ים וְתֵלַ֖דְנָה בָּנִ֣ים וּבָנ֑וֹת וּרְבוּ־שָׁ֖ם וְאַל־תִּמְעָֽטוּ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Gen 28:1And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, saying: Take not a wife of the stock of Chanaan:
- Gen 28:4And give the blessings of Abraham to thee, and to thy seed after thee: that thou mayst possess the land of thy sojournment, which he promised to thy grandfather.
- Gen 29:19Laban answered: It is better that I give her to thee than to another man; stay with me.
- Gen 24:51Behold, Rebecca is before thee, take her and go thy way, and let her be the wife of thy master's son, as the Lord hath spoken.
- Judg 12:9He 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:
- Gen 24:3That 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:
- Gen 24:4But that thou go to my own country and kindred, and take a wife from thence for my son Isaac.
- Gen 21:21And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan, and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.