And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
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Gill's Exposition
So I took the evidence of the purchase,.... The deed of purchase, the book or bill of sale, the instrument of the bargain, as before mentioned:
both that which is sealed, according to the law and…
Translate: And I wrote the particulars of the purchase in the deed ... And I took the purchase-deed, both that which was sealed containing the oiler and the conditions, and that which was open etc.…
It appears by the date of this chapter that we are now coming very nigh to that fatal year which completed the desolations of Judah and Jerusalem by the Chaldeans. God's judgments came gradually upon…
Cambridge Bible
And I subscribed the deed The following will explain the particulars of Jeremiah's action as given here and in the next vv. "Contracts stamped upon clay tablets have been found in Babylonia, enclosed…
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