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Jeremiah 32:10
I signed and sealed the deed, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jeremiah addresses his cousin Hanamel and the assembled witnesses immediately after weighing the silver for a field in Anathoth.
The words — The Hebrew אֶכְתֹּב (ekhtov) means "I wrote," and אֶחְתֹּם (echtom) means "I sealed," describing Jeremiah’s formal documentation of the transaction.
The thread — This procedural language reappears in Jeremiah 32:44, where land transactions will again be recorded and witnessed in Benjamin, and echoes Deuteronomy 32:34’s imagery of God sealing matters in His vaults.
Why it lands — It demands recognition that divine promises operate through concrete, legally binding actions rather than abstract assurances.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 32:44 Fields will be purchased with silver, and deeds will be signed, sealed, and witnessed in the land of Benjamin, in the areas surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah—the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev—because I will restore them from captivity, declares the LORD.”
- Jeremiah 32:12 and I gave this deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who were signing the purchase agreement and all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.
- Deuteronomy 32:34 “Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?
- Job 14:17 My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and You would cover over my iniquity.
- Isaiah 44:5 One will say, ‘I belong to the LORD,’ another will call himself by the name of Jacob, and still another will write on his hand, ‘The LORD’s,’ and will take the name of Israel.”
- Jeremiah 32:25 Yet You, O Lord GOD, have said to me, ‘Buy for yourself the field with silver and call in witnesses, even though the city has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans!’”
- Joshua 18:9 So the men departed and went throughout the land, mapping it city by city into seven portions. Then they returned with the document to Joshua at the camp in Shiloh.
- Ruth 4:9 At this, Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I am buying from Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech, Chilion, and Mahlon.
- Song of Solomon 8:6 Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.
- Isaiah 8:1 Then the LORD said to me, “Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary stylus: Maher-shalal-hash-baz.