| Verse | Translation | Text |
| Jer 29:6 | Strong Concordance | Take [03947] ye wives [0802], and beget [03205] sons [01121] and daughters [01323]; and take [03947] wives [0802] for your sons [01121], and give [05414] your daughters [01323] to husbands [0582], that they may bear [03205] sons [01121] and daughters [01121]; that ye may be increased [07235] there, and not diminished [04591]. |
| King James | 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. |
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| that ye . . . be . . . not diminished--It was God's will that the seed of Abraham should not fail; thus consolation is given them, and the hope, though not of an immediate, yet of an ultimate, return. |