Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Build you houses to dwell therein; plant you gardens, that ye may enjoy the fruits thereof;
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.
A Conservative Version
Build ye houses, and dwell in them, and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
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.
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 hath the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, spoken unto all the prisoners, that were led from Jerusalem unto Babylon: 5 Build you houses to dwell therein; plant you gardens, that ye may enjoy the fruits thereof; 6 take you wives, to bear you sons and daughters; provide wives for your sons, and husbands for your daughters, that they may get sons and daughters, and that ye may multiply there. Labour not to be few,
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 29:28
And beside all this, he hath sent us word unto Babylon, and told us plainly, that our captivity shall long endure: that we should build us houses to dwell therein, and to plant us gardens, that we might enjoy the fruit thereof.'
Jeremiah 29:10
But thus sayeth the LORD: When ye have fulfilled seventy years at Babylon, I will bring you home, and of mine own goodness I will carry you hither again to this place.
Ezekiel 28:26
They shall dwell safely therein, build houses, and plant vineyards. Yea, safely shall they dwell therein, when I have punished all those that despise them round about: and then shall they know that I am the LORD their God.