Jeremiah 32:6-12

Evangelical Heritage Version

Jeremiah Redeems a Field

⁶ Jeremiah said, “The word of the Lord came to me. ⁷ Watch for this. Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, will come to you and tell you to buy his field in Anathoth, because the right of redemption is yours. So buy it.”

⁸ Then Hanamel my cousin came to me in the courtyard of the guard, just as the Lord had said, and he told me to buy his field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, because the right to redeem it and take possession of it was mine. He told me to buy it for myself.

Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord. ⁹ I purchased the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel. I weighed out for him seventeen shekels^[a] of silver. ¹⁰ I signed the deed, sealed it, called witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales. ¹¹ Then I took the deed of the purchase containing the terms and conditions, both the sealed copy and an unsealed copy, ¹² and I gave them to Baruch son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, in the presence of my cousin Hanamel, and in the presence of the witnesses who had signed the deed, and in the presence of all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.