land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying: 14. And it shall come to pass, when seven years are expired, that every man shall let his brother go free, who is an Eberian, and hath sold himself unto him, and served him six years. But your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ears.

So ye have repented this day, and have done that which was right in mine eyes, in proclaiming a year of rest every man for his neighbour, and have made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name.

But ye are turned back, and have profaned my name; and every man shall recover his manservant and his maidservant, whom ye had released to be his own, and now compel them to be your manservants and your maidservants.

Therefore thus saith the LORD: Ye will not hearken unto me, to proclaim a year of liberty every man to his brother, and to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim, saith the LORD, a year of liberty unto you for the sword, and for the pestilence, and for the famine; and I will not suffer you to abide in any kingdom upon the earth.

And I will make the men that transgress my covenant, and that keep not the words of the covenant which they made before me, as the calf which they divided in two, and passed between the parts,

The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, and the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which were passed between the pieces of the calf.

And I will deliver them into the hand of their enemies, and of them that seek their life; and their dead bodies shall be meat for the fowls of the air, and for the beasts of the earth.

And Zedekiah king of Judah, and his princes, will I deliver into the hand of their enemies, and of them that seek their lives, and into the hand of the host of the king of Babylon, which are now departed from you.

For, behold, I will command them, saith the LORD, and will bring them again before this city, and they shall fight against it, and win it, and burn it with fire; and I will lay waste the cities of Judah, and none shall dwell there.
(Jeremiah)
Chapter 35
Of the Rechabite obedience and the Jewish people disobedience.

This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying:

Go into the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD in the chapel, and give them wine.

And I took Jazaniah the son of Jeremiah the son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and all the house of Rechab.

And brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chapel of the children of Hanan the son of Jegdaliah, the man of God, which is by the prince’s chapel, above the chapel of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the gate.

And I set before the children of the house of Rechab, cups full of wine, and bowls, and said unto them: Drink wine!

And they answered: We drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father hath
commanded us, saying, Ye and your children shall never drink wine.

And build no house, nor sow seed, nor plant a vineyard, nor have any: but dwell in tents all your days, that ye may live long in the land wherein ye sojourn.

So we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab our father, the son of Rechab, in all that he commanded us, that we should drink no wine all the days of our life, neither we, nor our wives, nor our sons, nor our daughters,

Neither build we houses to dwell in, neither have we vineyards, nor fields, nor seed, 10. But dwell in tabernacles, and obey, and do all things, as our father Jonadab commanded.

And when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, we said: Come, and let us go up to Jerusalem before the army of the Chaldeans and the Syrians: and we abode at Jerusalem.

And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying:

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and say unto them of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not amend yourselves, that ye may hearken unto my words?
saith the LORD.

The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, which he commanded his children that they should not drink wine, are kept: and they drink no wine unto this day, because they obeyed their father’s commandment. I have always preached to you, but you have not obeyed me.

Even so have I always sent unto you all my servants the prophets, saying, Turn ye every man from his evil way, and amend your ways, and follow not other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given you and your fathers. But ye would not incline your ears, nor obey me,

But the children of Jonadab the son of Rechab have kept their father’s commandment, which he commanded them. But this people will not obey me.

Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, and the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, all the evil that I have spoken against them, because I have spoken unto them, and they will not hear, I have called, and they will not answer me.

And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his commandments, and done all that he commanded you,

Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; There shall never fail Jonadab the son of Rechab; one of his own shall stand before me at all times.
(Jeremiah)
Chapter 36
Jeremiah’s sermons are torn up, burned, and rewritten.

In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying:

Take a book, and write therein all the words which I have spoken unto thee concerning Israel, and concerning Judah, and concerning all nations, from the time that I spake unto thee, even from the days of Josiah even unto this day,

Whether it may be that the house of Judah, hearing all the evil that I intend to do unto them, will turn every man from his wickedness, that I may forgive them their iniquity and their sin.

Then called Jeremiah Baruch the son of Neriah. And Baruch the same wrote in a book out of the mouth of Jeremiah all the sayings of the LORD, which he spake unto him.

And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying: I am a prisoner, that I cannot enter into the house of the LORD.

And thou shalt go in, and read the book wherein thou hast written the words of the LORD out of my mouth, before the people in the house of the LORD at the feast: and thou shalt read them also in the ears of all Judah, which come in out of their cities, 7. Whether they would humble themselves with prayer before the LORD, and turn every man from his evil way: for great is the wrath and fury of which the LORD hath spoken against this people.

And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, to read the words of the LORD out of the book in the house of the LORD.

And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD unto all the people of Jerusalem, and to all the people that come out of the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.

And Baruch read out of the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chapel of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the chancellor, in the upper court before the new gate of the house of the LORD, before all the people.

Now when Micaiah the son of Gemariah the son of Shaphan had heard all the words of the LORD out of the book,

And he went down into the king’s house, that they might be their own: and now compel them to be your servants and your handmaids.

Therefore thus saith the LORD: Ye will not hearken unto me, to proclaim a year of liberty every man to his brother, and to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim, saith the LORD, a year of liberty unto you for the sword, and for the pestilence, and for the famine; and I will not suffer you to abide in any kingdom upon the earth.

And I will make the men that transgress my covenant, and that keep not the words of the covenant which they made before me, as the calf which they divided in two, and passed between the parts,

The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, and the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which were passed between the pieces of the calf.

And I will deliver them into the hand of their enemies, and of them that seek their life; and their dead bodies shall be meat for the fowls of the air, and for the beasts of the earth.

And Zedekiah king of Judah, and his princes, will I deliver into the hand of their enemies, and of them that seek their lives, and into