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Genesis 29:19
Laban replied,“ I’d rather give her to you than to another man. Stay with me.”
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Genesis 28:1-4
So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him,“ You must not marry a Canaanite woman!Leave immediately for Paddan Aram! Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and find yourself a wife there, among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.May the sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham so that you may possess the land God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.”
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Genesis 24:3-4
so that I may make you solemnly promise by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth: You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living.You must go instead to my country and to my relatives to find a wife for my son Isaac.”
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Genesis 21:21
He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother found a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
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Judges 1:12-14
Caleb said,“ To the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher I will give my daughter Acsah as a wife.”When Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, captured it, Caleb gave him his daughter Acsah as a wife.One time Acsah came and charmed her father so she could ask him for some land. When she got down from her donkey, Caleb said to her,“ What would you like?”
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Genesis 24:51
Rebekah stands here before you. Take her and go so that she may become the wife of your master’s son, just as the LORD has decided.”
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Judges 12:9
He had thirty sons. He arranged for thirty of his daughters to be married outside his extended family, and he arranged for thirty young women to be brought from outside as wives for his sons. Ibzan led Israel for seven years;
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Genesis 9:7
But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.”
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Jeremiah 16:2-4
“ Do not get married and do not have children here in this land.For I, the LORD, tell you what will happen to the children who are born here in this land and to the men and women who are their mothers and fathers.They will die of deadly diseases. No one will mourn for them. They will not be buried. Their dead bodies will lie like manure spread on the ground. They will be killed in war or die of starvation. Their corpses will be food for the birds and wild animals.
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Genesis 1:27-28
God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.God blessed them and said to them,“ Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.”
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Genesis 34:4
Shechem said to his father Hamor,“ Acquire this young girl as my wife.”
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Genesis 24:60
They blessed Rebekah with these words:“ Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands of ten thousands! May your descendants possess the strongholds of their enemies.”
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Judges 14:2
When he got home, he told his father and mother,“ A Philistine girl in Timnah has caught my eye. Now get her for my wife.”
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1 Corinthians 7 36-1 Corinthians 7 38
If anyone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the bloom of youth and it seems necessary, he should do what he wishes; he does not sin. Let them marry.But the man who is firm in his commitment, and is under no necessity but has control over his will, and has decided in his own mind to keep his own virgin, does well.So then, the one who marries his own virgin does well, but the one who does not, does better.
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1 Timothy 5 14
So I want younger women to marry, raise children, and manage a household, in order to give the adversary no opportunity to vilify us.