Jeremiah 29:5

“Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat their produce.

Berean Standard Bible
Other translations

King James Version

Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;

World English Bible

“Build houses and dwell in them. Plant gardens and eat their fruit.

American Standard Version

Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

Geneva Bible 1599

Buylde you houses to dwell in, and plant you gardens, and eate the fruites of them.

Darby Translation

Build houses, and dwell in them, and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

Young's Literal Translation

Build ye houses, and abide; and plant ye gardens, and eat their fruit;

Bible in Basic English

Go on building houses and living in them, and planting gardens and using the fruit of them;

In context

4This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says to all the exiles who were carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:

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.

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