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29 In those days they shall no longer say:

“The parents have eaten sour grapes,
    and the children’s teeth are set on edge.”(A)

30 But all shall die for their own sins; the teeth of the one who eats sour grapes shall be set on edge.(B)

A New Covenant

31 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.(C) 32 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord.(D) 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.(E) 34 No longer shall they teach one another or say to each other, “Know the Lord,” for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more.(F)

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29 “In those days they will say no longer, ‘Parents[a] have eaten unripe fruit, and the teeth of the children are set on edge[b].’ 30 But[c] each will die because of his iniquity, everyone[d] who eats the unripe fruit, their teeth will be set on edge.[e]

31 Look, the days are coming,” declares[f] Yahweh, “and I will make[g] a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant that I made[h] with their ancestors[i] on the day of my grasping them[j] by their hand, bringing them out from the land of Egypt, my covenant that they themselves broke, though I myself was a master over them,” declares[k] Yahweh. 33 “But this is the covenant that I will make[l] with the house of Israel after those days,” declares[m] Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts and on their hearts[n] I will write it, and I will be to them God, and they themselves will be to me people. 34 And they will no longer teach each one his neighbor, or each one his brother, saying,[o] ‘Know Yahweh,’ for all of them will know me, from their smallest[p] and up to their greatest,”[q] declares[r] Yahweh, “for I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will no longer remember.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 31:29 Literally “Fathers”
  2. Jeremiah 31:29 Literally “have become blunt”
  3. Jeremiah 31:30 Literally “But if”
  4. Jeremiah 31:30 Literally “all of the humankind”
  5. Jeremiah 31:30 Literally “become blunt”
  6. Jeremiah 31:31 Literally “a declaration of”
  7. Jeremiah 31:31 Literally “cut”
  8. Jeremiah 31:32 Literally “cut”
  9. Jeremiah 31:32 Or “fathers”
  10. Jeremiah 31:32 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  11. Jeremiah 31:32 Literally “a declaration of”
  12. Jeremiah 31:33 Literally “cut”
  13. Jeremiah 31:33 Literally “a declaration of”
  14. Jeremiah 31:33 Hebrew “heart”
  15. Jeremiah 31:34 Literally “to say”
  16. Jeremiah 31:34 Literally “small”
  17. Jeremiah 31:34 Literally “great”
  18. Jeremiah 31:34 Literally “a declaration of”