Marry and have children. Then find spouses for them so that you may have many grandchildren. Multiply! Do not dwindle away!

娶妻生儿女，为你们的儿子娶妻，使你们的女儿嫁人，生儿养女。在那里生养众多，不致减少。

要娶妻生儿养女，为你们的儿子娶妻，使你们的女儿嫁人，生儿养女。你们要在那里生养众多，不可减少。

要娶妻生儿养女，为你们的儿子娶妻，使你们的女儿嫁人，生儿养女。你们要在那里生养众多，不可减少。

你们要娶妻生子，也要给你们的儿女娶妻选夫，使他们生儿育女，你们好在那里人丁兴旺，不致人口减少。

你们要娶妻，生养儿女；要为你们的儿子娶媳妇，把你们的女儿出嫁，好让他们也生养儿女。你们要在那里增多，不可减少。

娶妻生兒女，為你們的兒子娶妻，使你們的女兒嫁人，生兒養女。在那裏生養眾多，不致減少。

要娶妻生兒養女，為你們的兒子娶妻，使你們的女兒嫁人，生兒養女。你們要在那裏生養眾多，不可減少。

要娶妻生兒養女，為你們的兒子娶妻，使你們的女兒嫁人，生兒養女。你們要在那裏生養眾多，不可減少。

你們要娶妻生子，也要給你們的兒女娶妻選夫，使他們生兒育女，你們好在那裡人丁興旺，不致人口減少。

你們要娶妻，生養兒女；要為你們的兒子娶媳婦，把你們的女兒出嫁，好讓他們也生養兒女。你們要在那裡增多，不可減少。

要娶妻生兒女，要為你們的兒子娶妻，使你們的女兒嫁給人；生兒養女，在那裏一直增多，而不減少。

娶妻室、育子女、為子娶婦、使女適人、俾生子女、在彼繁衍、而不少減、

娶妻室、育子女、子則娶媳、女則適人、可生子孫、以致繁衍、其數不減。

娶妻室、生子女、為子娶媳、以女嫁人、使生子女、以致蕃衍於彼、人數不減、

Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there; do not decrease.

Get married. Have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons. Give your daughters to be married. Then they too can have sons and daughters. Let there be many more of you and not fewer.

Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease.

Find wives for yourselves, and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and give your daughters to men in marriage so that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease.

Take wives and father sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may give birth to sons and daughters; and grow in numbers there and do not decrease.

Take wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters— that you may be increased there, and not diminished.

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters: and multiply ye there, and be not diminished.

Take wives and have sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and give your daughters to men in marriage so that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease.

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

Marry and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and allow your daughters get married so that they too can have sons and daughters. Grow in number; do not dwindle away.

Take wives and father sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there, and don’t be diminished.

“ Agreed!” Laban replied.“ I’d rather give her to you than to anyone else. Stay and work with me.”

So Isaac called for Jacob, blessed him, and said,“ You must not marry any of these Canaanite women.Instead, go at once to Paddan aram, to the house of your grandfather Bethuel, and marry one of your uncle Laban’s daughters.May God Almighty bless you and give you many children. And may your descendants multiply and become many nations!May God pass on to you and your descendants the blessings he promised to Abraham. May you own this land where you are now living as a foreigner, for God gave this land to Abraham.”

Swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not allow my son to marry one of these local Canaanite women.Go instead to my homeland, to my relatives, and find a wife there for my son Isaac.”

and he settled in the wilderness of Paran. His mother arranged for him to marry a woman from the land of Egypt.

Caleb said,“ I will give my daughter Acsah in marriage to the one who attacks and captures Kiriath sepher.”Othniel, the son of Caleb’s younger brother, Kenaz, was the one who conquered it, so Acsah became Othniel’s wife.When Acsah married Othniel, she urged him to ask her father for a field. As she got down off her donkey, Caleb asked her,“ What’s the matter?”

Here is Rebekah; take her and go. Yes, let her be the wife of your master’s son, as the Lord has directed.”

He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He sent his daughters to marry men outside his clan, and he brought in thirty young women from outside his clan to marry his sons. Ibzan judged Israel for seven years.

Now be fruitful and multiply, and repopulate the earth.”

“ Do not get married or have children in this place.For this is what the Lord says about the children born here in this city and about their mothers and fathers:They will die from terrible diseases. No one will mourn for them or bury them, and they will lie scattered on the ground like manure. They will die from war and famine, and their bodies will be food for the vultures and wild animals.”

So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.Then God blessed them and said,“ Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.”

He said to his father, Hamor,“ Get me this young girl. I want to marry her.”

They gave her this blessing as she parted:“ Our sister, may you become the mother of many millions! May your descendants be strong and conquer the cities of their enemies.”

When he returned home, he told his father and mother,“ A young Philistine woman in Timnah caught my eye. I want to marry her. Get her for me.”

But if a man thinks that he’s treating his fiancée improperly and will inevitably give in to his passion, let him marry her as he wishes. It is not a sin.But if he has decided firmly not to marry and there is no urgency and he can control his passion, he does well not to marry.So the person who marries his fiancée does well, and the person who doesn’t marry does even better.

So I advise these younger widows to marry again, have children, and take care of their own homes. Then the enemy will not be able to say anything against them.