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Genesis 29:19
Laban said,“ It is better that I give her to you than to give her to another man; stay with me.”
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Genesis 28:1-4
So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and commanded him, saying to him,“ You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.Arise, go to Paddan aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father; and from there take to yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a multitude of peoples.May He also give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your descendants with you, so that you may possess the land where you live as 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 earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live;but you will go to my country and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”
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Genesis 21:21
He lived 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
And Caleb said,“ Whoever attacks Kiriath sepher and captures it, I will give him my daughter Achsah as a wife.”Now Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, captured it; so he gave him his daughter Achsah as a wife.Then it happened that when she came to him, she incited him to ask her father for a field. Then later, she dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her,“ What do you want?”
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Genesis 24:51
Here is Rebekah before you, take her and go, and let her be the wife of your master’s son, as the Lord has spoken.”
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Judges 12:9
He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters whom he gave in marriage outside the family, and he brought in thirty daughters from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel for seven years.
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Genesis 9:7
As for you, be fruitful and multiply; Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”
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Jeremiah 16:2-4
“ You shall not take a wife for yourself nor have sons or daughters in this place.”For this is what the Lord says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and concerning their mothers who give birth to them, and their fathers who father them in this land:“ They will die of deadly diseases, they will not be mourned or buried; they will be like dung on the surface of the ground. And they will perish by sword and famine, and their dead bodies will become food for the birds of the sky and for the animals 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.God blessed them; and God said to them,“ Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky 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,“ May you, our sister, Become thousands of ten thousands, And may your descendants possess The gate of those who hate them.”
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Judges 14:2
So he came back and told his father and mother,“ I saw a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines; so now, get her for me as a wife.”
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1 Corinthians 7 36-1 Corinthians 7 38
But if anyone thinks that he is acting dishonorably toward his virgin, if she is past her youth and it ought to be so, let him do what he wishes, he is not sinning; let them marry.But the one who stands firm in his heart, if he is not under constraint, but has authority over his own will, and has decided this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin, he will do well.So then, both the one who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and the one who does not give her in marriage will do better.
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1 Timothy 5 14
Therefore, I want younger widows to get married, have children, manage their households, and give the enemy no opportunity for reproach;