"And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed {it}, and took witnesses, and weighed {him} the money in the balances. {subscr…" — Jeremiah 32:10

Jeremiah 32:10 · KJV

“And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed {it}, and took witnesses, and weighed {him} the money in the balances. {subscribed...: Heb. wrote in the book}”

— Jeremiah 32:10

Verse 9

And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that {was} in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, {even} seventeen shekels of silver. {seventeen...: or, seven shekels and ten pieces of silver}

Verse 11

So I took the evidence of the purchase, {both} that which was sealed {according} to the law and custom, and that which was open:

Jeremiah 32 — Context

So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that {is} in Anathoth, which {is} in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance {is} thine, and the redemption {is} thine; buy {it} for thyself. Then I knew that this {was} the word of the LORD.

And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that {was} in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, {even} seventeen shekels of silver. {seventeen...: or, seven shekels and ten pieces of silver}

And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed {it}, and took witnesses, and weighed {him} the money in the balances. {subscribed...: Heb. wrote in the book}

So I took the evidence of the purchase, {both} that which was sealed {according} to the law and custom, and that which was open:

And 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.

Cross References

Jeremiah 32:44

Men 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.

Jeremiah 32:12

Jeremiah 32:25

And 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. {for the: or, though the}

Job 14:17

My transgression {is} sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.

Isaiah 44:5

One 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.

Deuteronomy 32:34

{Is} not this laid up in store with me, {and} sealed up among my treasures?

Song of Solomon 8:6

Set 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. {cruel: Heb. hard}

Revelation 7:2

And 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,