Jeremiah 32:10

⁸ So Hanameel mine uncle’s son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

⁹ And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle’s son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.

And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.

¹¹ So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open:

¹² And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: I signed and sealed the deed, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.
KJV: And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
WEB: I signed the deed, sealed it, called witnesses, and weighed the money in the balances to him.
ASV: And I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
DARBY: And I subscribed the writing, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed the money in the balances.
BLB: And I wrote in the account and sealed [it], and I took witnesses, and weighed out the silver in the scales.

ÅB: Og jeg skrev det i et brev og forseglet det og tok vitner, og jeg veide sølvet i vektskåler.
OTB: Jeg signerte og forseglet skjøtet, fikk det bevitnet, og veide sølvet på vekten.
B1930: Og jeg skrev det i et brev og forseglet det og tok vidner, og jeg veide sølvet i vektskåler.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Jeremiah 32:44
Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD.
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Jeremiah 32:12
And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.
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Jeremiah 32:25
And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field for money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
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Deuteronomy 32:34
Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
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Job 14:17
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
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Isaiah 44:5
One shall say, I am the LORD’s; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
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Revelation 7:2
And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
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2 Corinthians 1:22
Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
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