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Jeremiah 35:7

WEB

7You shall not build a house, sow seed, plant a vineyard, or have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents, that you may live many days in the land in which you live as nomads.’

KJV

7Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.

BSB

7Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.’

FBV

7Don't ever build houses or sow crops or plant vineyards. You're not to do this. Instead, you are to always live in tents so that you may have long lives as you move from place to place in the country.’


Extra References

Jeremiah 35:10

10but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.


Leviticus 23:42-43

42You shall dwell in temporary shelters[+] for seven days. All who are native-born in Israel shall dwell in temporary shelters,43[+] that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in temporary shelters[+] when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’”


Genesis 25:27

27The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.


Exodus 20:12

12Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.


Nehemiah 8:14-16

14They found written in the law how the LORD had commanded by Moses that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month; 15and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the mountain, and get olive branches, branches of wild olive, myrtle branches, palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make temporary shelters,[+] as it is written.”

16So the people went out and brought them, and made themselves temporary shelters,[+] on the roof of his house, in their courts, in the courts of God’s house, in the wide place of the water gate, and in the wide place of Ephraim’s gate.


Ephesians 6:2-3

2Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: 3that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”


1 Peter 2:11

11Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,


Hebrews 11:9-13

9By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. 10For he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

11By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised. 12Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.

13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen[+] them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.


Ephesians 5:18

18Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,