Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Build ye houses, and dwell in them, and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;
Holman Bible
“Build houses and live in them.
International Standard Version
"Build houses and live in them. Plant gardens and eat their produce.
American Standard Version
Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
Amplified
‘Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit.
Bible in Basic English
Go on building houses and living in them, and planting gardens and using the fruit of them;
Darby Translation
Build houses, and dwell in them, and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
Julia Smith Translation
Build ye houses and dwell; and plant gardens and eat their fruit:
King James 2000
Build you houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;
Lexham Expanded Bible
'Build houses and live [in them], and plant gardens and eat their fruit.
Modern King James verseion
Build houses and live in them; and plant gardens and eat their fruit.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Build you houses to dwell therein; plant you gardens, that ye may enjoy the fruits thereof;
NET Bible
Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat what they produce.
New Heart English Bible
'Build houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat their fruit.
The Emphasized Bible
Build ye houses and dwell in them, - And plant ye gardens and eat the fruit thereof;
Webster
Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;
World English Bible
Build houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
Youngs Literal Translation
Build ye houses, and abide; and plant ye gardens, and eat their fruit;
Themes
Art » Primitive » Of the gardener
Arts and crafts » Names of various » Gardeners
Interlinear
Banah
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 29:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jeremiah's Letter To The Exiles In Babylon
4 Thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the captivity whom I have caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon: 5 Build ye houses, and dwell in them, and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them. 6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters. And take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters, and multiply ye there, and be not diminished.
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 29:28
inasmuch as he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, [It] is long. Build ye houses, and dwell in them, and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them?
Jeremiah 29:10
For thus says LORD, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you in causing you to return to this place.
Ezekiel 28:26
And they shall dwell securely therein. Yea, they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and shall dwell securely, when I have executed judgments upon all those who do them spite round about them. And they shall know that I am LOR