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“Thus said yahuah of hosts, Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, to all the exiles whom I exiled from Yerushalayim to Baḇel,
5 ‘Build houses and dwell in them, plant gardens and eat their fruit.
6 ‘Take wives and bring forth sons and daughters. And take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons and daughters, and be increased there, and not diminished.
7 ‘And seek the peace of the city where I have exiled you, and pray to yahuah for it, for in its peace you have peace.’
8 “For thus said יהוה of hosts, Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, ‘Let not your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, neither listen to the dreams which you are dreaming.
9 ‘For they are prophesying falsely to you in My Name. I have not sent them,’ declares yahuah.
10 “For thus said yahuah , ‘When seventy years are completed, at Baḇel I shall visit you and establish My good word toward you, to bring you back to this place.
11 ‘For I know the plans I am planning for you,’ declares yahuah, ‘plans of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and an expectancy.
12 ‘Then you shall call on Me, and shall come and pray to Me, and I shall listen to you.
13 ‘And you shall seek Me, and shall find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart 1. Footnote: 1Dt. 4:29, Joel 2:12.
14 ‘And I shall be found by you,’ declares yahuah, ‘and I shall turn back your captivity, and shall gather you from all the gentiles and from all the places where I have driven you, declares yahuah. And I shall bring you back to the place from which I have exiled you.’