Jeremiah 16:2
New International Version
“You must not marry and have sons or daughters in this place.”

New Living Translation
“Do not get married or have children in this place.

English Standard Version
“You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place.

Berean Standard Bible
“You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.”

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

New King James Version
“You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place.”

New American Standard Bible
“You shall not take a wife for yourself nor have sons or daughters in this place.”

NASB 1995
“You shall not take a wife for yourself nor have sons or daughters in this place.”

NASB 1977
“You shall not take a wife for yourself nor have sons or daughters in this place.”

Legacy Standard Bible
“You shall not take a wife for yourself nor have sons or daughters in this place.”

Amplified Bible
“You shall not take a wife or have sons and daughters in this place (Jerusalem).”

Christian Standard Bible
“Do not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
“You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Do not take yourself a wife, and you shall not have sons or daughters in this place

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and there shall be no son born to thee, nor daughter in this place.

Contemporary English Version
Jeremiah, don't get married and have children--Judah is no place to raise a family.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have thee sons and daughters in this place.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Don't marry! Don't have any sons or daughters in this place!

Good News Translation
"Do not marry or have children in a place like this.

International Standard Version
"You are not to take a wife, nor are you to have sons or daughters in this place."

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thou shalt not take thee a wife, Neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.

Literal Standard Version
“You do not take a wife to yourself, | Nor do you have sons and daughters in this place.”

Majority Standard Bible
“You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.”

New American Bible
Do not take a wife and do not have sons and daughters in this place,

NET Bible
"Do not get married and do not have children here in this land.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place.

New Heart English Bible
"You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons nor daughters in this place.

World English Bible
“You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.”

Young's Literal Translation
Thou dost not take to thee a wife, Nor hast thou sons and daughters in this place.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Disaster Predicted
1Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2“You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.” 3For this is what the LORD says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and the mothers who bore them, and the fathers who fathered them in this land:…

Cross References
Jeremiah 16:1
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Jeremiah 16:3
For this is what the LORD says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and the mothers who bore them, and the fathers who fathered 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, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease.

Lamentations 2:22
You summoned my attackers on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD's anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.


Treasury of Scripture

You shall not take you a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters in this place.

Genesis 19:14
And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.

Matthew 24:19
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

Luke 21:23
But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

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Jeremiah 16
1. The prophet, under the types of abstaining from marriage,
8. from houses of mourning and feasting, foreshows the utter ruin of the Jews;
10. because they were worse than their fathers.
14. Their return from captivity shall be stranger than their deliverance out of Egypt.
16. God will doubly recompense their idolatry.














(2) Thou shalt not take thee a wife . . .--The words came to an Israelite and to a priest with a force which we can hardly understand. With them marriage, and the hopes which it involved, was not only a happiness but a duty, and to be cut off from it was to renounce both, because the evil that was coming on the nation was such as to turn both into a curse. We may compare cur Lord's words in Matthew 24:19 and those spoken to the daughters of Jerusalem (Luke 23:29), and what, in part at least, entered into St. Paul's motives for a like abstinence on account of "the present distress" (1Corinthians 7:26).

Verse 2. - Thou shalt not take thee a wife. So St. Paul, "I think therefore that this is good by reason of the present distress, namely, that it is good for a man to be as he is (1 Corinthians 7:26, Revised Version); and Hosea has already drawn an awful picture of "Ephraim bringing forth his children to the murderer" (Hosea 9:9). In ordinary times it was a kind of unwritten law among the Israelites to marry and beget children. Most of the prophets (e.g. Isaiah) appear to have been married. In this place; i.e. in the land of Judah. A Jeremianic phrase (comp. Jeremiah 7:3).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
“You must not
לֹֽא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

marry
תִקַּ֥ח (ṯiq·qaḥ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3947: To take

[or]
וְלֹֽא־ (wə·lō-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

have
יִהְי֤וּ (yih·yū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

sons
בָּנִ֣ים (bā·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1121: A son

or daughters
וּבָנ֔וֹת (ū·ḇā·nō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 1323: A daughter

in this
הַזֶּֽה׃ (haz·zeh)
Article | Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

place.”
בַּמָּק֖וֹם (bam·mā·qō·wm)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4725: A standing, a spot, a condition


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