Jeremiah 29:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Build yourselves houses and dwell in them; plant gardens and eat the fruit of them.

American Standard Version (1901)

Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

Common English Bible

Build houses and settle down; cultivate gardens and eat what they produce.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Build houses and live in them. And plant gardens, and eat from their fruit.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Jeremiah 29:5 Cross References

Jeremiah 29:10

“For thus says the Lord: When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfil to you my promise and bring you back to this place.

Jeremiah 29:28

For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, “Your exile will be long; build houses and live in them, and plant gardens and eat their produce.” ’ ”

Jeremiah 29:6

Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease.

Ezekiel 28:26

And they shall dwell securely in it, and they shall build houses and plant vineyards. They shall dwell securely, when I execute judgments upon all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.”