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I set before the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups, and said to them, “Drink some wine.”

“We do not drink wine,” they said to me; “Jonadab,[a] Rechab’s son, our father, commanded us, ‘Neither you nor your children shall ever drink wine.(A) Build no house and sow no seed; do not plant vineyards or own any. You must dwell in tents all your lives, so that you may live long on the land where you live as resident aliens.’

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Footnotes

  1. 35:6 Jonadab: another spelling of Jehonadab, a contemporary of King Jehu; cf. 2 Kgs 10:15–17.