Jeremiah 29:6 meaning and explanation

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

Jeremiah 29:6, Berean Standard Bible

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Jeremiah is writing from Jerusalem to the Judeans deported to Babylon, answering the false hope that exile would end quickly. Here God commands ordinary family life in a foreign land: marriages, children, grandchildren.

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