Jeremiah 16:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.””
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““You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters, in this place.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Thou dost not take to thee a wife, Nor hast thou sons and daughters in this place.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 16:2 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 19:14So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
- Jeremiah 29:6Take 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.
- Matthew 24:19How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!
- Luke 21:23How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.
- Luke 23:29Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
- 1 Corinthians 7:26Because of the present crisis, I think it is good for a man to remain as he is.
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