So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open:
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Gill's Exposition
And I gave the evidence of the purchase,.... Both that which was sealed and that which was open; both the original and the copy; or the whole, as signed, sealed, and witnessed:
unto Baruch the son…
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
both that which was sealed … and that which was open but not implying two documents to be kept separate. They were the two parts of a whole. See on Jer 32:32.
according to the law and custom better,…