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Genesis 29:19
And Laban said,“ It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”
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Genesis 28:1-4
Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, and charged him, and said to him:“ You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.Arise, go to Padan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father; and take yourself a wife from there of the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother.“ May God Almighty bless you, And make you fruitful and multiply you, That you may be an assembly of peoples;And give you the blessing of Abraham, To you and your descendants with you, That you may inherit the land In which you are a stranger, Which God gave to Abraham.”
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Genesis 24:3-4
and I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell;but you shall go to my country and to my family, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”
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Genesis 21:21
He dwelt in the Wilderness of Paran; and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
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Judges 1:12-14
Then Caleb said,“ Whoever attacks Kirjath Sepher and takes it, to him I will give my daughter Achsah as wife.”And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it; so he gave him his daughter Achsah as wife.Now it happened, when she came to him, that she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her,“ What do you wish?”
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Genesis 24:51
Here is Rebekah before you; take her and go, and let her be your master’s son’s wife, as the Lord has spoken.”
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Judges 12:9
He had thirty sons. And he gave away thirty daughters in marriage, and brought in thirty daughters from elsewhere for his sons. He judged Israel seven years.
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Genesis 9:7
And as for you, be fruitful and multiply; Bring forth abundantly in the earth And multiply in it.”
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Jeremiah 16:2-4
“ You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place.”For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them and their fathers who begot them in this land:“ They shall die gruesome deaths; they shall not be lamented nor shall they be buried, but they shall be like refuse on the face of the earth. They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, and their corpses shall be meat for the birds 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 He created him; male and female He created them.Then God blessed them, and God said to them,“ Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
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Genesis 34:4
So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying,“ Get me this young woman as a wife.”
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Genesis 24:60
And they blessed Rebekah and said to her:“ Our sister, may you become The mother of thousands of ten thousands; And may your descendants possess The gates of those who hate them.”
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Judges 14:2
So he went up and told his father and mother, saying,“ I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines; now therefore, get her for me as a wife.”
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1 Corinthians 7 36-1 Corinthians 7 38
But if any man thinks he is behaving improperly toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of youth, and thus it must be, let him do what he wishes. He does not sin; let them marry.Nevertheless he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so determined in his heart that he will keep his virgin, does well.So then he who gives her in marriage does well, but he who does not give her in marriage does better.
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1 Timothy 5 14
Therefore I desire that the younger widows marry, bear children, manage the house, give no opportunity to the adversary to speak reproachfully.