Jeremiah 16:2

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

““You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.””

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BSBPD

““You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters, in this place.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Thou dost not take to thee a wife, Nor hast thou sons and daughters in this place.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Jeremiah 16:2 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Matthew 24:19How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!
  4. 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.
  5. 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!’
  6. 1 Corinthians 7:26Because of the present crisis, I think it is good for a man to remain as he is.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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