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I signed and sealed the deed of purchase before witnesses, weighed out the silver, and paid him.
Jeremiah 32:10 · New Living Translation
Parallel translations
  • WEB I signed the deed, sealed it, called witnesses, and weighed the money in the balances to him.
  • KJV And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
  • 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.

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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 the deeds, and seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill country, and in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South: for I will cause their captivity to return,” says Yahweh.
  • Jer 32:12and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses who subscribed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the guard.
  • Deut 32:34“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?
  • Isa 44:5One will say, ‘I am Yahweh’s;’ and another will be called by the name of Jacob; and another will write with his hand ‘to Yahweh,’ and honor the name of Israel.”
  • Job 14:17My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.
  • Jer 32:25You have said to me, Lord Yahweh, ‘Buy the field for money, and call witnesses;’ whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.”
  • Josh 18:9The men went and passed through the land, and surveyed it by cities into seven portions in a book. They came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh.
  • Isa 8:1–2Yahweh said to me, “Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher Shalal Hash Baz’;
  • Dan 8:26The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true: but seal up the vision; for it belongs to many days to come.
  • John 6:27Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
  • Isa 30:8Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.
  • Eph 1:13in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation — in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
  • 2 Cor 1:22who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.
  • John 3:33He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.
  • Rev 7:2I saw another angel ascend from the sunrise, having the seal of the living God. He cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to harm the earth and the sea,
  • Eph 4:30Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
  • Rev 9:4They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don’t have God’s seal on their foreheads.
  • Ruth 4:9–11Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, “You are witnesses today, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi.
  • Song 8:6Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.

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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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