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Jeremiah 35:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Jeremiah 35:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 Then I set before the Rechabites pitchers full of wine and cups, and I said to them, “Have some wine.”(A) 6 But they answered, “We will drink no wine, for our ancestor Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us, ‘You shall never drink wine, neither you nor your children,(B) 7 nor shall you ever build a house or sow seed, nor shall you plant a vineyard or even own one, but you shall live in tents all your days, that you may live many days in the land where you reside.’(C)
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