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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.

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.

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“Then, just as the Lord had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and said, ‘Buy my field(A) at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. Since it is your right to redeem it and possess it, buy it for yourself.’

“I knew that this was the word of the Lord; so I bought the field(B) at Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel and weighed out for him seventeen shekels[a] of silver.(C) 10 I signed and sealed the deed,(D) had it witnessed,(E) and weighed out the silver on the scales.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 32:9 That is, about 7 ounces or about 200 grams