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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”

29 “The people will no longer quote this proverb:

‘The parents have eaten sour grapes,
    but their children’s mouths pucker at the taste.’

30 All people will die for their own sins—those who eat the sour grapes will be the ones whose mouths will pucker.

31 “The day is coming,” says the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. 32 This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant, though I loved them as a husband loves his wife,” says the Lord.

33 “But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel after those days,” says the Lord. “I will put my instructions deep within them, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 34 And they will not need to teach their neighbors, nor will they need to teach their relatives, saying, ‘You should know the Lord.’ For everyone, from the least to the greatest, will know me already,” says the Lord. “And I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins.”

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