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“Then my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard just as the Lord had said, and he told me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin because you have the right to possess it, and the right to redeem it belongs to you. Buy it for yourself.’ So I knew that this was a message from the Lord.

“Then I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel. I weighed out the silver for him—seventeen shekels[a] of silver. 10 I signed the deed and sealed it. I called in witnesses and used scales to weigh out the silver.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 32:9 I.e. about 6.8 ounces; a shekel weighed about 0.4 ounces