Parallel Strong's Berean Study BibleTake 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. Young's Literal Translation Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take for your sons wives, and your daughters give to husbands, and they bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and ye are not few; King James Bible 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. Hebrew Takeקְח֣וּ (qə·ḥū) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's 3947: To take wives נָשִׁ֗ים (nā·šîm) Noun - feminine plural Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female and have וְהוֹלִידוּ֮ (wə·hō·w·lî·ḏū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage sons בָּנִ֣ים (bā·nîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 1121: A son and daughters. וּבָנוֹת֒ (ū·ḇā·nō·wṯ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural Strong's 1323: A daughter Take וּקְח֨וּ (ū·qə·ḥū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's 3947: To take wives נָשִׁ֗ים (nā·šîm) Noun - feminine plural Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female for your sons לִבְנֵיכֶ֜ם (liḇ·nê·ḵem) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 1121: A son and give תְּנ֣וּ (tə·nū) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's 5414: To give, put, set your daughters בְּנֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ (bə·nō·w·ṯê·ḵem) Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 1323: A daughter in marriage, לַֽאֲנָשִׁ֔ים (la·’ă·nā·šîm) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 582: Man, mankind so that they too may have וְתֵלַ֖דְנָה (wə·ṯê·laḏ·nāh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person feminine plural Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage sons בָּנִ֣ים (bā·nîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 1121: A son and daughters. וּבָנ֑וֹת (ū·ḇā·nō·wṯ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural Strong's 1323: A daughter Multiply וּרְבוּ־ (ū·rə·ḇū-) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's 7235: To be or become much, many or great there; שָׁ֖ם (šām) Adverb Strong's 8033: There, then, thither do not וְאַל־ (wə·’al-) Conjunctive waw | Adverb Strong's 408: Not decrease. תִּמְעָֽטוּ׃ (tim·‘ā·ṭū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 4591: To pare off, lessen, in, to be, small, few |