Verse 2

Jeremiah 16:2

Bible in Basic English

2 You are not to take a wife for yourself or have sons or daughters in this place.

Original Language Text

hebrew

לֹֽא תִקַּ֥ח לְ/ךָ֖ אִשָּׁ֑ה וְ/לֹֽא יִהְי֤וּ לְ/ךָ֙ בָּנִ֣ים וּ/בָנ֔וֹת בַּ/מָּק֖וֹם הַ/זֶּֽה

English Translation

You shall not take a wife for yourself, and there shall not be for you sons and daughters in this place.

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Chapter 16 Context

1 Then again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Focus ↗

2 You are not to take a wife for yourself or have sons or daughters in this place.

3 For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and... Focus ↗

4 Death from evil diseases will overtake them; there will be no weeping for them and their bodies will... Focus ↗

5 For this is what the Lord has said: Do not go into the house of sorrow, do not go to make weeping or... Focus ↗

6 Death will overtake great as well as small in the land: their bodies will not be put in a resting-pl... Focus ↗

7 No one will make a feast for them in sorrow, to give them comfort for the dead, or put to their lips... Focus ↗

8 And you are not to go into the house of feasting, or be seated with them to take food or drink. Focus ↗

9 For the Lord of armies, the God (Elohim) of Israel, has said, See, before your eyes and in your days... Focus ↗

10 And it will be, that when you say all these words to the people, then they will say to you, Why has... Focus ↗

11 Then you will say to them, Because your fathers have given me up, says the Lord, and have gone after... Focus ↗

12 And you have done worse evil than your fathers; for see, every one of you is guided by the pride of... Focus ↗

13 For this reason I will send you away out of this land into a land which is strange to you, to you an... Focus ↗

14 For this cause, see, the days are coming, says the Lord, when it will no longer be said, By the livi... Focus ↗

15 But, By the living Lord, who took the children of Israel up out of the land of the north, and from a... Focus ↗

16 See, I will send for great numbers of fishermen, says the Lord, and they will take them like fish in... Focus ↗

17 For my eyes are on all their ways: there is no cover for them from my face, and their evil-doing is... Focus ↗

18 And I will give them the reward of their evil-doing and their sin twice over; because they have made... Focus ↗

19 O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come... Focus ↗

20 Will a man make for himself gods which are no gods? Focus ↗

21 For this reason, truly, I will make them see, this once I will give them knowledge of my hand and my... Focus ↗

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