10 As for me, Behold, I will dwell at Mizpah to [a]serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but you, gather you wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities, that ye have [b]taken.

11 Likewise when all the Jews that were in [c]Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babel had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan,

12 Even all the Jews returned out of all places where they were driven, and came to the land of Judah to Gedaliah unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits, very much.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 40:10 Or, to receive them, or to entreat them for you.
  2. Jeremiah 40:10 Or, chosen to dwell in.
  3. Jeremiah 40:11 Which were fled also for fear of the Chaldeans.

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