“Is not all the land before you? Please separate from me. If you take the left, then I go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I go to the left.”
“The land of Mitsrayim is before you. Settle your father and brothers in the best of the land, let them dwell in the land of Goshen. And if you know of capable men among them, then make them chief herdsmen over my livestock.”
But Yirmeyahu said, “It is a lie! I am not deserting to the Chaldeans.” But he did not listen to him, and Yiriyah seized Yirmeyahu and brought him to the heads.