Jeremiah 29:5
Good News Translation
'Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat what you grow in them.

New Revised Standard Version
Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat what they produce.

Contemporary English Version
to settle there and build houses. Plant gardens and eat what you grow in them.

New American Bible
Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their fruits.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Build ye houses, and dwell in them: and plant orchards, and eat the fruit of them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Build ye houses, and dwell in them: and plant orchards, and eat the fruit of them.

Jeremiah 29:10,28 For thus saith the Lord: When the seventy years shall begin to be accomplished in Babylon, I will visit you: and I will perform my good word in your favour, to bring you again to this place. . . .

Ezekiel 28:26 And they shall dwell therein secure, and they shall build houses, and shall plant vineyards, and shall dwell with confidence, when I shall have executed judgments upon all that are their enemies round about: and they shall know that I am the Lord their God.

Context
Jeremiah's Letter to the Exiles
4Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, to all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon: 5Build ye houses, and dwell in them: and plant orchards, and eat the fruit of them.6Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters: and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons and daughters: and be ye multiplied there, and be not few in number.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 29:28
For he hath also sent to us in Babylon, saying: It is a long time: build ye houses, and dwell in them: and plant gardens, and eat the fruits of them.

Jeremiah 29:6
Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters: and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons and daughters: and be ye multiplied there, and be not few in number.

Jeremiah 29:4
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