# take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands
Parents commonly arranged their children's marriages.
# Seek the peace of the city
The peace of the city is a metonym for the people living in peace. AT: "Do everything you can so the people of the city live in peace" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
# the city ... its behalf ... it is at peace
These words refer to the city of Babylon.