Jeremiah 29:5 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁵ Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Build yourselves houses and dwell in them; plant gardens and eat the fruit of them.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

Common English Bible

⁵ Build houses and settle down; cultivate gardens and eat what they produce.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Build houses and live in them. And plant gardens, and eat from their fruit.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ 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 saith the Lord, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

Jeremiah 29:28

For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

Jeremiah 29:6

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; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

Ezekiel 28:26

And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the Lord their God.