Jeremiah 29:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat what they produce.

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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 says the Lord: Only when Babylon’s seventy years are completed will I visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place.

Jeremiah 29:28

For he has actually sent to us in Babylon, saying, “It will be a long time; build houses and live in them, and plant gardens and eat what they 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

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