Jeremiah 32

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For Jeremiah 32 in the Septuagint, see Jeremiah 25.
Jeremiah 32
Partially torn page from Jeremiah (31:34 - 32:14) of the Aleppo Codex from a fascimile edition.
BookBook of Jeremiah
Hebrew Bible partNevi'im
Order in the Hebrew part6
CategoryLatter Prophets
Christian Bible partOld Testament
Order in the Christian part24

Jeremiah 32 is the thirty-second

prophet Jeremiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. In this chapter, Jeremiah redeems a piece of property belonging to his family and explains the significance of his act.[1]

Text

The original text of this chapter, as with the rest of the Book of Jeremiah, was written in Hebrew language. Since the division of the Bible into chapters and verses in the late medieval period, this chapter is divided into 44 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), Aleppo Codex (10th century[a]), Codex Leningradensis (1008).[3] Some fragments possibly containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, i.e., 2QJer (2Q13; 1st century CE[4]), with extant verses 24–25.[5]

There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; B; 4th century), Codex Sinaiticus (S; BHK: S; 4th century), Codex Alexandrinus (A; A; 5th century) and Codex Marchalianus (Q; Q; 6th century).[6]

Verse numbering

The order of chapters and verses of the Book of Jeremiah in the English Bibles, Masoretic Text (Hebrew), and Vulgate (Latin), in some places differs from that in Septuagint (LXX, the Greek Bible used in the Eastern Orthodox Church and others) according to Rahlfs or Brenton. The following table is taken with minor adjustments from Brenton's Septuagint, page 971.[7]

The order of Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint/Scriptural Study (CATSS) based on Alfred Rahlfs' Septuaginta (1935), differs in some details from Joseph Ziegler's critical edition (1957) in Göttingen LXX. Swete's Introduction mostly agrees with Rahlfs' edition (=CATSS).[7]

Hebrew, Vulgate, English Rahlfs' LXX (CATSS)
32:1-44 39:1-44
25:15-38 32:1-24

Parashot

The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex, and those in the missing parts of the codex (since 1947) are from Kimhi's notes,[8] marked with an asterisk (*).[9] Jeremiah 32 is a part of the "Twelfth prophecy (Jeremiah 32-33)" in the "Consolations (Jeremiah 30-33)" section of Prophecies interwoven with narratives about the prophet's life (Jeremiah 26-45). {P}: open parashah; {S}: closed parashah.

{P} 32:1-5 {P} 32:6-14 {S*} 32:15 {P*} 32:16-25 {S} 32:26-35 {S} 32:36-41 {S} 32:42-44 {P}

Structure

This chapter is structured around the purchase of a family field by Jeremiah.[10] The New King James Version divides this chapter into the following sections:

Verse 1

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.[11]

"The tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah" was 588 BCE.

Jeremiah 39:2).[10]

Verse 4

Yet hear the word of the Lord, O Zedekiah king of Judah! Thus says the Lord concerning you: 'You shall not die by the sword.'[14]
  • The prophecy is fulfilled that Zedekiah was not executed to death by the king of Babylon, as recorded in
    Jeremiah 52:11.[15]

Verse 5

You shall die in peace; as in the ceremonies of your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so they shall burn incense for you and lament for you, saying, "Alas, lord!" For I have pronounced the word, says the Lord.[16]
  • The prophecy is fulfilled that Zedekiah died of natural cause in Babylon, as recorded in
    Jeremiah 52:11.[15]

Verse 12

and I gave the purchase deed to Baruch the son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses who signed the purchase deed, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the prison.[17]

Verse 15

For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.[21]
  • "Houses and fields and vineyards": Jeremiah's purchase shows a remarkable faith and confidence of the future restoration of properties in Israel.[22]

Verse 22

You have given them this land, of which You swore to their fathers to give them—"a land flowing with milk and honey."[23]
  • "A land flowing with milk and honey": citing Exodus 3:8

See also

  • Related
    Leviticus 25

Notes

  1. ^ Since 1947 only parts containing verses 1, 4-9, 12-21, 24-44 are extant[2]

References

  1. ^ Streane, A. W., Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges on Jeremiah 32, accessed 13 March 2019
  2. ^ P. W. Skehan (2003), "BIBLE (TEXTS)", New Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 2 (2nd ed.), Gale, pp. 355–362
  3. ^ Würthwein 1995, pp. 35–37.
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  5. ISBN 9780802862419
    . Retrieved February 15, 2019.
  6. ^ Würthwein 1995, pp. 73–74.
  7. ^ a b "Table of Order of Jeremiah in Hebrew and Septuagint". www.ccel.org.
  8. ^ Shalom Shachna Yellin, Yehoshua Kimchi (October 8, 1837). "Yellin Tanakh" – via Internet Archive.
  9. ^ Ofer 1992, p. 320
  10. ^ a b Huey 1993, p. 289.
  11. ^ Jeremiah 32:1 NKJV
  12. ^ Coogan 2007, pp. 1130–1132.
  13. NABRE translation of Jeremiah 32:1
  14. ^ Jeremiah 32:4 NKJV
  15. ^ a b Huey 1993, p. 343.
  16. ^ Jeremiah 32:5 NKJV
  17. ^ Jeremiah 32:12 NKJV
  18. ^ O'Connor 2007, p. 515.
  19. ^ Allen 2008, p. 367.
  20. ^ Hebrew Text Analysis: Jeremiah 32:12. Biblehub.
  21. ^ Jeremiah 32:15 KJV
  22. ^ Coogan 2007, pp. 1130-1132 Hebrew Bible.
  23. ^ Jeremiah 32:22 NKJV

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