Jeremiah 35:6-8
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
6 “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) 7 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.’ 8 We have obeyed Jonadab, Rechab’s son, our father, in everything that he commanded us: not drinking wine as long as we live—neither we nor our wives nor our sons nor our daughters;
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- 35:6 Jonadab: another spelling of Jehonadab, a contemporary of King Jehu; cf. 2 Kgs 10:15–17.
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