Jeremiah 35:9
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Nor have we built houses in which to live, and we have not owned any vineyards or fields or crops.
In context
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.”
Jeremiah 35:9 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Nor have we built houses in which to live, and we have not owned any vineyards or fields or crops.
- KJV King James Version
- Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
- WEB World English Bible
- and not to build houses for ourselves to dwell in. We have no vineyard, field, or seed;
- ASV American Standard Version
- nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- nor to build houses for our dwelling; and vineyard, and field, and seed, we have none;
- DBY Darby Translation
- and not to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed;
- WBS Webster Bible
- Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed: