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And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
Jeremiah 32:10 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB I signed the deed, sealed it, called witnesses, and weighed the money in the balances to him.
  • BSB I signed and sealed the deed, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.
  • NKJV And I signed the deed and sealed it, took witnesses, and weighed the money on the scales.
  • NASB And I signed and sealed the deed, and called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.
  • NLT I signed and sealed the deed of purchase before witnesses, weighed out the silver, and paid him.

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Quick answer

Jeremiah formally signed and sealed the deed, called witnesses, and weighed out the payment. The careful legal process makes the sign of hope concrete and binding.

Overview

The deliberate steps of signing, sealing, witnessing, and paying follow proper legal custom, lending full validity to the purchase. Such formality stresses that the prophet's hope was no vague sentiment but a documented, irrevocable commitment. God's promises, like this deed, are sure and binding, sealed and guaranteed, as believers' inheritance is sealed by the Spirit (2 Cor. 1:22).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 19

  • Jer 32:44Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD.
  • Jer 32:12And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.
  • Deut 32:34Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
  • Isa 44:5One shall say, I am the LORD’s; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
  • Job 14:17My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
  • Jer 32:25And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field for money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
  • Josh 18:9And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.
  • Isa 8:1–2Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man’s pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
  • Dan 8:26And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.
  • John 6:27Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
  • Isa 30:8Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
  • Eph 1:13In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
  • 2 Cor 1:22Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
  • John 3:33He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
  • Rev 7:2And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
  • Eph 4:30And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
  • Rev 9:4And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
  • Ruth 4:9–11And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, of the hand of Naomi.
  • Song 8:6Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

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Christ at the center

Against the failure of false shepherds Jeremiah promises the Righteous Branch, 'The LORD our righteousness,' and the new covenant written on the heart and sealed in the blood of Christ.

How Jeremiah 32:10 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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