"Do not marry or have children in a place like this.

They will die of terrible diseases, and no one will mourn for them or bury them. Their bodies will lie like piles of manure on the ground. They will be killed in war or die of starvation, and their bodies will be food for the birds and the wild animals.

So God created human beings, making them to be like himself. He created them male and female,

blessed them, and said, "Have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth and bring it under their control. I am putting you in charge of the fish, the birds, and all the wild animals.

"You must have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth."

So I would prefer that the younger widows get married, have children, and take care of their homes, so as to give our enemies no chance of speaking evil of us.

His mother got an Egyptian wife for him.

I want you to make a vow in the name of the LORD, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not choose a wife for my son from the people here in Canaan.

You must go back to the country where I was born and get a wife for my son Isaac from among my relatives."

Here is Rebecca; take her and go. Let her become the wife of your master's son, as the LORD himself has said."

And they gave Rebecca their blessing in these words: "May you, sister, become the mother of millions! May your descendants conquer the cities of their enemies!"

Isaac called Jacob, greeted him, and told him, "Don't marry a Canaanite.

May Almighty God bless your marriage and give you many children, so that you will become the father of many nations!

Laban answered, "I would rather give her to you than to anyone else; stay here with me."

He told his father, "I want you to get Dinah for me as my wife."

One of them, called Caleb, said, "I will give my daughter Achsah in marriage to the man who succeeds in capturing Kiriath Sepher."

On the wedding day Othniel urged her to ask her father for a field. She got down from her donkey, and Caleb asked her what she wanted.

He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He gave his daughters in marriage outside the clan and brought thirty young women from outside the clan for his sons to marry. Ibzan led Israel for seven years,

He went back home and told his father and mother, "There is a Philistine woman down at Timnah who caught my attention. Get her for me; I want to marry her."

In the case of an engaged couple who have decided not to marry: if the man feels that he is not acting properly toward the young woman and if his passions are too strong and he feels that they ought to marry, then they should get married, as he wants to. There is no sin in this.

So the man who marries does well, but the one who doesn't marry does even better.