Jeremiah 32:6-12

Expanded Bible

⁶ Jeremiah said [^Cwhile still in prison], “The Lord spoke this word to me: ⁷ Hanamel, son of your uncle Shallum, will come to you soon. Hanamel will say to you, ‘Buy my field near the town of Anathoth [^CJeremiah’s hometown; 1:1]. It is your right and your duty to buy that field [^Cbecause he is a near relative; Lev. 25:23–25].’

⁸ “Then it happened just as the Lord had said. ·My cousin [^LThe son of my uncle] Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and said to me, ‘Buy for yourself my field near Anathoth in the land of Benjamin. It is your right and duty to buy it and own it.’ So I knew this was a ·message [^Lword] from the Lord.

⁹ “I bought the field at Anathoth from ·my cousin [^Lthe son of my uncle] Hanamel, weighing out ·seven ounces [^Lseventeen shekels] of silver for him. ¹⁰ I ·signed the record [^Lwrote in a scroll] and sealed it and had some people witness it. I also weighed out the silver on the scales. ¹¹ Then I took both copies of the ·record [scroll] of ·ownership [purchase]—the one that was sealed that had the demands and ·limits of ownership [terms], and the one that was ·not sealed [^Lexposed]. ¹² And I gave them to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah [36; 43:3, 6; 45:1–2]. My cousin Hanamel, the other witnesses who signed the ·record [scroll] of ·ownership [purchase], and many ·Jews [^LJudeans] sitting in the courtyard of the guard saw me give the ·record [scroll] of ·ownership [purchase] to Baruch.