You shall not take you a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters in this place.
You shall not take you a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters in this place.
Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters, in this place.
You are not to take a wife for yourself or have sons or daughters in this place.
Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons nor daughters in this place.
You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.
Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.
Those shalt not take thee a wife - As it would be very inconvenient to have a family when the threatened desolations should come on the place. The reason is given in the following verses.
As marriage was obligatory upon the Jews, the prohibition of it to Jeremiah was a sign that the impending calamity was so great as to override all ordinary duties. Jeremiah was unmarried, but the force of the sign lay in its being an exception to the ordinary practice of the prophets.
In this place - The whole of Judaea.