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Jeremiah 29:3-5
Lexham English Bible
Jeremiah 29:3-5
Lexham English Bible
3 by the hand of Elasah, the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah, the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah, the king of Judah, sent to Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, to Babylon, saying,[a] 4 “Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles[b] whom I have deported from Jerusalem to Babylon, 5 ‘Build houses and live in them,[c] and plant gardens and eat their fruit.
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- Jeremiah 29:3 Literally “to say”
- Jeremiah 29:4 Hebrew “exile”
- Jeremiah 29:5 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
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