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Genesis 29:19
Laban replied,“ Better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay with me.”
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Genesis 28:1-4
So Isaac summoned Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him,“ Do not marry a Canaanite girl.Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father. Marry one of the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you so that you become an assembly of peoples.May God give you and your offspring the blessing of Abraham so that you may possess the land where you live as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”
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Genesis 24:3-4
and I will have you swear by the LORD, God of heaven and God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I live,but will go to my land and my family to take a wife for my son Isaac.”
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Genesis 21:21
He settled in the Wilderness of Paran, and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
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Judges 1:12-14
Caleb said,“ Whoever attacks and captures Kiriath-sepher, I will give my daughter Achsah to him as a wife.”So Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s youngest brother, captured it, and Caleb gave his daughter Achsah to him as his wife.When she arrived, she persuaded Othniel to ask her father for a field. As she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her,“ What do you want?”
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Genesis 24:51
Rebekah is here in front of you. Take her and go, and let her be a wife for your master’s son, just as the LORD has spoken.”
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Judges 12:9
and had thirty sons. He gave his thirty daughters in marriage to men outside the tribe and brought back thirty wives for his sons from outside the tribe. Ibzan judged Israel seven years,
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Genesis 9:7
But you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out over the earth and multiply on it.”
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Jeremiah 16:2-4
“ Do not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.For this is what the LORD says concerning sons and daughters born in this place as well as concerning the mothers who bear them and the fathers who father them in this land:They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will be like manure on the soil’s surface. They will be finished off by sword and famine. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land.
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Genesis 1:27-28
So God created man in his own image; he created him in the image of God; he created them male and female.God blessed them, and God said to them,“ Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth.”
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Genesis 34:4
“ Get me this girl as a wife,” he told his father.
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Genesis 24:60
They blessed Rebekah, saying to her: Our sister, may you become thousands upon ten thousands. May your offspring possess the city gates of their enemies.
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Judges 14:2
He went back and told his father and his mother,“ I have seen a young Philistine woman in Timnah. Now get her for me as a wife.”
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1 Corinthians 7 36-1 Corinthians 7 38
If any man thinks he is acting improperly toward the virgin he is engaged to, if she is getting beyond the usual age for marriage, and he feels he should marry— he can do what he wants. He is not sinning; they can get married.But he who stands firm in his heart( who is under no compulsion, but has control over his own will) and has decided in his heart to keep her as his fiancée, will do well.So, then, he who marries his fiancée does well, but he who does not marry will do better.
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1 Timothy 5 14
Therefore, I want younger women to marry, have children, manage their households, and give the adversary no opportunity to accuse us.