Jeremiah 16:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² You shall not take a wife or have sons and daughters in this place [Jerusalem].

American Standard Version (1901)

² Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters, in this place.

Common English Bible

² Don’t marry or have children in this place.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² "You shall not take a wife, and there shall be no sons or daughters for you in this place.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Thou shalt not take thee a wife neither shalt thou have sons and daughters in this place.

Jeremiah 16:2 Cross References

Genesis 19:14

So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, “Up, get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.

Jeremiah 16:1

The word of the Lord came to me:

Jeremiah 16:3

For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place and concerning the mothers who bear them and the fathers who father them in this land:

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.

Lamentations 2:22

You invited my enemies from all around as if for a day of festival; and on the day of the anger of the Lord, no one escaped or survived; those whom I bore and reared, my enemy has destroyed.

Matthew 24:19

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing infants in those days!

Luke 21:23

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people;

Luke 23:29

For the days are surely coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’