Jeremiah 32:10

10 And I signed on the letter and sealed [it], and I called witnesses as witness, and I weighed out the money on a set of scales.

Jeremiah 32:10 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 32:10

And I subscribed the evidence
Or, "wrote in a book" ^F21; the instrument or bill of sale, the deed of purchase; which described the field sold, and expressed the condition on which the purchase was made; and by subscribing it he agreed to it, and laid himself under obligation to perform it: and sealed [it];
for the further confirmation of it: and took witnesses;
to be present at the payment of the money, and to sign the deed likewise: and weighed [him] the money in the balances;
this he did a second time; he weighed it first before Hanameel himself, and then before the witnesses; everything was done fairly, and with great exactness.

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FOOTNOTES:

F21 (rpob btkaw) "et scripsi in libro", V. L. Munster, Pagninus, Montanus; "in libello", Cocceius.

Jeremiah 32:10 In-Context

8 Then Hanamel, the son of my uncle, came to me, to the courtyard of the guard {according to} the word of Yahweh, and he said to me, 'Please buy my field that [is] at Anathoth, that [is] in the land of Benjamin, for to you [is] the claim of possession, and to you the redemption; buy [it] for yourself.' Then I knew that this [was] the word of Yahweh.

9 And I bought the field from Hanamel, the son of my uncle, that [was] at Anathoth. And I weighed out to him the money, seventeen silver shekels.

10 And I signed on the letter and sealed [it], and I called witnesses as witness, and I weighed out the money on a set of scales.

11 Then I took the deed of the purchase, the sealed [copy containing] the commandments and the rules, together with the [one] that was open.

12 And I gave the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, {in the presence of} Hanamel, [the son of] my uncle, and {in the presence of} the witnesses who signed the deed of the purchase, {in the presence of} the Judeans who were sitting in the courtyard of the guard.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "scroll"
• [b]. Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation