Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
"You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.
New American Standard Bible
“You shall not take a wife for yourself nor have sons or daughters in this place.”
King James Version
Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.
Holman Bible
“You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.
International Standard Version
"You are not to take a wife, nor are you to have sons or daughters in this place."
A Conservative Version
Thou shall not take thee a wife, nor shall thou have sons or daughters, in this place.
American Standard Version
Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters, in this place.
Amplified
“You shall not take a wife or have sons and daughters in this place (Jerusalem).”
Bible in Basic English
You are not to take a wife for yourself or have sons or daughters in this place.
Darby Translation
Thou shalt not take thee a wife, and thou shalt not have sons nor daughters in this place.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou shalt not take to thee a wife, and sons and daughters shall not be to thee in this place.
King James 2000
You shall not take you a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters in this place.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"You shall not take for yourself a wife, there shall not be for you sons and daughters in this place."
Modern King James verseion
You shall not take a wife for yourself, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Thou shalt take thee no wife, nor beget children in this place.
NET Bible
"Do not get married and do not have children here in this land.
The Emphasized Bible
Thou shall not take to thee a wife, - Neither shalt thou have sons or daughters, in this place.
Webster
Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons nor daughters in this place.
World English Bible
You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.
Youngs Literal Translation
Thou dost not take to thee a wife, Nor hast thou sons and daughters in this place.
Interlinear
Laqach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 16:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jeremiah Is Commanded Not To Marry
1 The word of the LORD came also to me, saying, 2 "You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place. 3 For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became their father in this land:
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:26-27
I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.
Genesis 19:14
Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up. Get out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
Matthew 24:19
But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days.
Luke 21:23
Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days. For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people.
Luke 23:29
For look, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'