Thus hath the Lord of hosts the God of Israel spoken unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have [a]caused to be carried away captives from Jerusalem unto Babel:

Build you houses to dwell in, and plant you gardens, and eat the fruits of them.

Take you wives, and beget sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters, that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 29:4 To wit, the Lord, whose work this was.

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