Behold, Hanamel, the son of Shallum thine uncle, shall come unto thee and say, [a]Buy unto thee my field, that is in Anathoth: for the [b]title by kindred appertaineth unto thee [c]to buy it.

So Hanamel 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 [d]field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of the possession is thine, and the purchase belongeth unto thee: buy it for thee. Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.

And I bought the field of Hanamel, mine uncle’s son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the silver, even seven [e]shekels, and ten pieces of silver.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 32:7 Whereby was meant that the people should return again out of captivity and enjoy their possessions and vineyards, as verses 15 and 44.
  2. Jeremiah 32:7 Or, right to redeem it.
  3. Jeremiah 32:7 Because he was next of the kindred, as Ruth 4:4.
  4. Jeremiah 32:8 Of the possession of the Levites, read Lev. 25:32.
  5. Jeremiah 32:9 Which mounteth to of our money about ten shillings six pence, if this shekel were the common shekel, read Gen. 23:15, for the shekel of the Temple was of double value, and ten pieces of silver were half a shekel: for twenty made the shekel.

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