Then I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, “Drink wine.”

But they said, “We will drink no wine, for (A)Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, ‘You shall drink (B)no wine, you nor your sons, forever. You shall not build a house, sow seed, plant a vineyard, nor have any of these; but all your days you shall dwell in tents, (C)that you may live many days in the land where you are sojourners.’

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