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  1. All in the family.<\/em> The law of redemption (which we read 417 chapters ago in Leviticus 25:25-34) is one of the biblical laws of real estate whose goal is to keep the estate in the family. According to this law, if a person is forced to sell their land, the obligation to buy it devolves upon their next of kin, so that it does not get sold to those outside the family.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. That\u2019s how you buy a field<\/em>. The payment is made in silver that need to be weighed out (coinage was not yet part of the Israelite reality in the time of Jeremiah). There are witnesses, a contract, a deed of purchase, written and preserved in two copies. One that is open, as proof of purchase, and the other, sealed and preserved. Perhaps as an official legal copy, if necessary (vv. 9-11).<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Nice to meet you, Barch son of Neriah<\/em>. Baruch son of Neriah the scribe, Jeremiah\u2019s personal assistant, is mentioned in verse 12 for the first time. But it won\u2019t be the last. In the coming chapters we\u2019ll meet him writing Jeremiah\u2019s scroll of the prophecies of wrath, reading it in the House of God, and then being persecuted on account of his connections to Jeremiah (ch. 36). And in another 13 chapters, there will even be a special prophecy about him (ch 45).<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Why praise<\/em>? Jeremiah\u2019s prayer after buying the field opens with words of praise about the unlimited power of God \u201c\u201cAh, Lord GOD! You made heaven and earth with Your great might and outstretched arm. Nothing is too wondrous for You!\u201d (verse 17), and for all the good that God has granted the ungrateful people. God\u2019s answer to Jeremiah uses the same ideas: \u201c\u201cBehold I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too wondrous for Me?\u201d (v. 27). And it is this unlimited power that enables God to punish, and then to rehabilitate. 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