Jeremiah 32:6–15

⁶And Jeremiah said, “The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

⁷‘Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle is coming to you, saying, “Buy for yourself my field which is at ^aAnathoth, for you have the ^blegal judgment for redemption to buy it.” ’

⁸“Then Hanamel my uncle’s son came to me in the ^acourt of the guard according to the word of Yahweh and said to me, ‘Buy my field, please, that is at ^bAnathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for you have the legal judgment for possession, and the redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that this was the ^cword of Yahweh.

⁹“I bought the field which was at Anathoth from Hanamel my uncle’s son, and I ^aweighed out the silver for him, seventeen ^1bshekels of silver.

¹⁰“And I ^1asigned and ^bsealed the deed and ^ccalled in witnesses and weighed out the silver on the scales.

¹¹“Then I took the deeds of purchase, both the sealed copy containing the ^acommandment and statutes and the open copy,

¹²and I gave the deed of purchase to ^aBaruch the son of ^bNeriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of Hanamel my uncle’s son and in the sight of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, in the sight of all the Jews who were sitting in the court of the guard.

¹³“And I commanded Baruch in their sight, saying,

¹⁴‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “Take these deeds—this deed of purchase—that is the sealed one as well as this open deed, and put them in an earthenware jar, that they may ¹last a long time.”

¹⁵‘For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “^aHouses and fields and vineyards will again be bought in this land.” ’