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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 Padanaram, 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 multitude of people;And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
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Genesis 24:3-4
And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto 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 unto 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 Kirjathsepher, 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[ to him], that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off[ her] ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt 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 the LORD hath spoken.
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Judges 12:9
And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters,[ whom] he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters 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 the LORD 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 of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried;[ but] they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
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Genesis 1:27-28
So 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 fowl of the air, 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, Thou[ art] our sister, be thou[ the mother] of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which 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 Timnath 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 think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of[ her] age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.So then he that giveth[ her] in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth[ her] not in marriage doeth better.
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1 Timothy 5 14
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.