Jeremiah 32:6-15

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^6-7 Then this message from the Lord came to Jeremiah: Your cousin Hanamel (son of Shallum) will soon arrive to ask you to buy the farm he owns in Anathoth, for by law you have a chance to buy before it is offered to anyone else.

⁸ So Hanamel came, as the Lord had said he would, and visited me in the prison. “Buy my field in Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin,” he said, “for the law gives you the first right to purchase it.” Then I knew for sure that the message I had heard was really from the Lord.

⁹ So I bought the field, paying Hanamel seventeen pieces of silver. ¹⁰ I signed and sealed the deed of purchase before witnesses, weighed out the silver, and paid him. ¹¹ Then I took the sealed deed containing the terms and conditions and also the unsealed copy, ¹² and publicly, in the presence of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who had signed the deed, and as the prison guards watched, I handed the papers to Baruch (son of Neriah, who was the son of Mahseiah). ¹³ And I said to him as they all listened:

¹⁴ “The Lord, God of Israel, says: Take both this sealed deed and the copy and put them into a pottery jar to preserve them for a long time. ¹⁵ For the Lord, God of Israel, says: In the future these papers will be valuable.^[a] Someday people will again own property here in this country and will be buying and selling houses and vineyards and fields.”