Jeremiah 35:9
New International Version
or built houses to live in or had vineyards, fields or crops.

New Living Translation
We haven’t built houses or owned vineyards or farms or planted crops.

English Standard Version
and not to build houses to dwell in. We have no vineyard or field or seed,

Berean Standard Bible
Nor have we built houses in which to live, and we have not owned any vineyards or fields or crops.

King James Bible
Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

New King James Version
nor to build ourselves houses to dwell in; nor do we have vineyard, field, or seed.

New American Standard Bible
nor to build ourselves houses to live in; and we do not have a vineyard, a field, or seed.

NASB 1995
nor to build ourselves houses to dwell in; and we do not have vineyard or field or seed.

NASB 1977
nor to build ourselves houses to dwell in; and we do not have vineyard or field or seed.

Legacy Standard Bible
nor to build ourselves houses to inhabit; and we do not have vineyard or field or seed.

Amplified Bible
nor have we built ourselves houses to live in; nor do we have vineyards or fields or seed.

Christian Standard Bible
We also have not built houses to live in and do not have vineyard, field, or seed.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
We also have not built houses to live in and do not have vineyard, field, or seed.

American Standard Version
nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And we shall not build houses to dwell in, and we shall not have vineyards or fields or seed

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and so as to build no houses to dwell in: and we have had no vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Nor to build houses to dwell in, nor to have vineyard, or field, or seed:

English Revised Version
nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
built houses to live in, or owned vineyards, pastures, or grainfields.

International Standard Version
and have built no houses to live in. We don't have vineyards, fields, or seed.

JPS Tanakh 1917
nor to build houses for us to dwell in, neither to have vineyard, or field, or seed;

Literal Standard Version
nor to build houses to dwell in; and we have no vineyard, and field, and seed;

Majority Standard Bible
Nor have we built houses in which to live, and we have not owned any vineyards or fields or crops.

New American Bible
not building houses to live in; not owning vineyards or fields or crops.

NET Bible
We have not built any houses to live in. We do not own any vineyards, fields, or crops.

New Revised Standard Version
and not to build houses to live in. We have no vineyard or field or seed;

New Heart English Bible
nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

Webster's Bible Translation
Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

World English Bible
and not to build houses for ourselves to dwell in. We have no vineyard, field, or seed;

Young's Literal Translation
nor to build houses for our dwelling; and vineyard, and field, and seed, we have none;

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Obedience of the Rechabites
8And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives—neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters. 9Nor have we built houses in which to live, and we have not owned any vineyards or fields or crops. 10But we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done exactly as our forefather Jonadab commanded us.…

Cross References
1 Timothy 6:6
Of course, godliness with contentment is great gain.

Psalm 37:16
Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many who are wicked.

Jeremiah 35:7
Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.'


Treasury of Scripture

Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

Jeremiah 35:7
Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.

Numbers 16:14
Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.

2 Kings 5:26
And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?

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Jeremiah 35
1. By the obedience of the Rechabites,
12. Jeremiah condemns the disobedience of the Jews.
18. God blesses the Rechabites for their obedience.
















Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Nor have we
וּלְבִלְתִּ֛י (ū·lə·ḇil·tî)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l
Strong's 1115: A failure of, not, except, without, unless, besides, because not, until

built
בְּנ֥וֹת (bə·nō·wṯ)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 1129: To build

houses
בָּתִּ֖ים (bāt·tîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1004: A house

to live in
לְשִׁבְתֵּ֑נוּ (lə·šiḇ·tê·nū)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | first person common plural
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

[or]
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

had
יִֽהְיֶה־ (yih·yeh-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

vineyards,
וְכֶ֧רֶם (wə·ḵe·rem)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3754: A garden, vineyard

fields,
וְשָׂדֶ֛ה (wə·śā·ḏeh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7704: Field, land

or crops.
וָזֶ֖רַע (wā·ze·ra‘)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2233: Seed, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity


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