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By the ninth day of the fourth month[a] the famine in the city was so severe the residents[b] had no food.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 52:6 sn According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586 b.c. The siege thus lasted almost a full eighteen months.
  2. Jeremiah 52:6 tn Heb “the people of the land.”

By the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

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And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

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