Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters,.... That is, such as had no wives, who were either bachelors or widowers; not that they were to take wives of the Chaldeans, but of those of their own nation; for intermarriages with Heathens were forbidden them; and this they were to do, in order to propagate their posterity, and keep up a succession:and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands; or "men" ; preserving and establishing the right of parents to give their children in marriage, and pointing to them their duty to provide suitable yoke fellows for them; and hereby is signified, that not only they, but their children after them, should continue in this state of captivity:that they may bear sons and daughters, that ye may be increased there;and not diminished; like their ancestors in Egypt, who grew very numerous amidst all their afflictions and bondage.
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Jeremiah 29:6
Jeremiah 29:6
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