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Genesis 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.
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Genesis 28:1-4
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.Arise, go to Paddan- aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a company of peoples;and give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land of thy sojournings, which God gave unto Abraham.
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Genesis 24:3-4
and I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou wilt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:but thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.
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Genesis 21:21
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
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Judges 1:12-14
And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kiriath- sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.And it came to pass, when she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she alighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?
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Genesis 24:51
Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master’s son’s wife, as Jehovah hath spoken.
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Judges 12:9
And he had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he sent abroad, and thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
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Genesis 9:7
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
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Jeremiah 16:2-4
Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters, in this place.For thus saith Jehovah concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land:They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung upon the face of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.
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Genesis 1:27-28
And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
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Genesis 34:4
And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.
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Genesis 24:60
And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let thy seed possess the gate of those that hate them.
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Judges 14:2
And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.
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1 Corinthians 7 36-1 Corinthians 7 38
But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself unseemly toward his virgin daughter, if she be past the flower of her age, and if need so requireth, let him do what he will; he sinneth not; let them marry.But he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power as touching his own will, and hath determined this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin daughter, shall do well.So then both he that giveth his own virgin daughter in marriage doeth well; and he that giveth her not in marriage shall do better.
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1 Timothy 5 14
I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling: