9or built houses to live in or had vineyards, fields or crops.
9or built houses to live in or had vineyards, fields or crops.
6 But they replied, "We do not drink wine, because our forefather Jonadab son of Recab gave us this command: 'Neither you nor your descendants must ever drink wine.
7 Also you must never build houses, sow seed or plant vineyards; you must never have any of these things, but must always live in tents. Then you will live a long time in the land where you are nomads.'
8 We have obeyed everything our forefather Jonadab son of Recab commanded us. Neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters have ever drunk wine
9 or built houses to live in or had vineyards, fields or crops.
10 We have lived in tents and have fully obeyed everything our forefather Jonadab commanded us.
11 But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded this land, we said, 'Come, we must go to Jerusalem to escape the Babylonian and Aramean armies.' So we have remained in Jerusalem."
35:9Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
35:9Nor to build houses to dwell in, nor to have vineyard, or field, or seed:
35:9nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
35:9and not to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed;
35:9nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
35:9Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
35:9nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
35:9nor to build houses for our dwelling; and vineyard, and field, and seed, we have none;
35:9Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed: