Jeremiah 16:2 ““You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.””

Jeremiah 16:2

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

“You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.”

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Thou shalt not take thee a wife, nor haue sonnes nor daughters in this place.

Darby Translation

Thou shalt not take thee a wife, and thou shalt not have sons nor daughters in this place.

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

You are not to take a wife for yourself or have sons or daughters in this place.

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Cross references

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

Genesis 19:14 Luke 21:23 Luke 23:29 Matthew 24:19 1 Corinthians 7:26 1 Corinthians 7:27

Genesis 19:14 · BSB

So 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…

Luke 21:23 · BSB

How 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 23:29 · BSB

Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’

Matthew 24:19 · BSB

How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!

1 Corinthians 7:26 · BSB

Because of the present crisis, I think it is good for a man to remain as he is.

1 Corinthians 7:27 · BSB

Are you committed to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you free of commitment? Do not look for a wife.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

3For this is what the LORD says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and the mothers who bore them, and the fathers who fathered them in this land:

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