Jeremiah 32:6–15

⁶The Lord told me ⁷that Hanamel, my uncle Shallum’s son, would come to me with the request to buy his field at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin, because I was his nearest relative and had the right to buy it for myself. ⁸Then, just as the Lord had said, Hanamel came to me there in the courtyard and asked me to buy the field. So I knew that the Lord had really spoken to me. ⁹I bought the field from Hanamel and weighed out the money to him; the price came to seventeen pieces of silver. ¹⁰I signed and sealed the deed, had it witnessed, and weighed out the money on scales. ¹¹Then I took both copies of the deed of purchase—the sealed copy containing the contract and its conditions, and the open copy- ¹²and gave them to Baruch, the son of Neriah and grandson of Mahseiah. I gave them to him in the presence of Hanamel and of the witnesses who had signed the deed of purchase and of the people who were sitting in the courtyard. ¹³Before them all I said to Baruch, ¹⁴“The Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, has ordered you to take these deeds, both the sealed deed of purchase and the open copy, and to place them in a clay jar, so that they may be preserved for years to come. ¹⁵The Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, has said that houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.”