Jeremiah 35:9

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Jeremiah 35:9

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Nor have we built houses in which to live, and we have not owned any vineyards or fields or crops.

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KJV

King James Version

Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

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WEB

World English Bible

and not to build houses for ourselves to dwell in. We have no vineyard, field, or seed;

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ASV

American Standard Version

nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

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Jeremiah 35

⁷ Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.’

⁸ And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives—neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters.

⁹ Nor have we built houses in which to live, and we have not owned any vineyards or fields or crops.

¹⁰ But we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done exactly as our forefather Jonadab commanded us.

¹¹ So when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched into the land, we said: ‘Come, let us go into Jerusalem to escape the armies of the Chaldeans and the Arameans.’ So we have remained in Jerusalem.”

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