⁶ Jeremiah replied: This word of the Lord was delivered to me: ⁷ Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, will come to you and say, “Purchase for yourself my field at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. As my closest relative, you have the first right of redemption.” ⁸ Then, just as the Lord had foretold, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and said, “Buy my field at Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for the right of redemption and possession is yours as next of kin. Therefore, purchase it for yourself.” I then knew that this was the word of the Lord.

⁹ Therefore, I bought the field at Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel and weighed out the money to him—seventeen shekels of silver. ¹⁰ I signed the deed, sealed it, had it witnessed, and weighed the money on the scales. ¹¹ Then I took the deed of purchase,^[a] both the sealed copy containing the terms and conditions and the unsealed one, ¹² and handed them over to Baruch, the son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, in the presence of my cousin Hanamel and of the witnesses who had signed the deed of purchase and of all the Judeans who then happened to be sitting in the courtyard of the guard.

¹³ In their presence I gave the following instructions to Baruch: ¹⁴ Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Take the documents of the deed of purchase, both the sealed and the unsealed copies, and place them in an earthenware jar so that they may be preserved for a long period of time. ¹⁵ For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards will again be bought in this land.