Jeremiah 35:6-10 ▼

6 But they said, “We will not drink wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us: ‘You shall not drink wine, neither you nor your sons, forever.

7 Nor shall you build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard or own one; but you shall live in tents all your days, that you may live many days in the land where you are sojourners (temporary residents).’

8 We have obeyed the words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, in all our days we have never drunk wine, nor have our wives, our sons, or our daughters,

9 nor have we built ourselves houses to live in; nor do we have vineyards or fields or seed.

10 We have lived only in tents, and have obeyed and done [everything] according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.