Jeremiah 35:6-10
Read Jeremiah 35 in full →6But they said, “We will not drink wine, for aJonadab the son of bRechab, our father, commanded us, saying, ‘You shall cnot drink wine, you or your sons, forever. 7‘And you shall not build a house, and you shall not sow seed, and you shall not plant a vineyard or own one; but atents you shall inhabit all your days, that you may live bmany days in the land where you csojourn.’ 8“So we have alistened to the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, not to drink wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters, 9nor to build ourselves houses to inhabit; and we ado not have vineyard or field or seed. 10“We have only ainhabited tents and have listened and have done according to all that bJonadab our father commanded us.