Jeremiah 32:6–15

⁶Jeremiah replied, “The word of the Lord came to me: ⁷Watch! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy my field in Anathoth^q for yourself, for you own the right of redemption^r to buy it.’

⁸“Then, as the Lord had said, my cousin Hanamel came to the guard’s courtyard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord. ⁹So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out the silver to him^s —seventeen shekels^A of silver. ¹⁰I recorded it on a scroll,^t sealed it, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales. ¹¹I took the purchase agreement—the sealed copy with its terms and conditions and the open copy—¹²and gave the purchase agreement to Baruch^u son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah. I did this in the sight of my cousin^B Hanamel, the witnesses who had signed the purchase agreement, and all the Judeans sitting in the guard’s courtyard.

¹³“I charged Baruch in their sight, ¹⁴‘This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Take these scrolls—this purchase agreement with the sealed copy and this open copy—and put them in an earthen storage jar so they will last a long time. ¹⁵For this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.’^v