5. I set jars full of wine and cups before the sons of the house of the Rechabites, and said to them: “Drink wine!”
6. But they said: “We drink no wine, for Jonadab son of Rechab our father commanded us: ‘You will drink no wine, not you nor your sons, forever.
7. Also you are not to build a house, or sow seed, or plant a vineyard or own one. Instead all your days you are to dwell in tents, so that you may live many days in the land where you sojourn.’
8. So we obeyed the voice of Jonadab son of Rechab our father in all that he charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters,
9. nor to build houses for us to dwell in, nor to own a vineyard, field or seed,
10. and we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
11. But when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came up against the land, we said: ‘Come, let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans and for fear of the army of the Arameans. So we are dwelling in Jerusalem.”
12. Then came the word of Adonai to Jeremiah, saying,