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HAFTARAT BEHAR
- Jeremiah 32:6-27
32 6Jeremiah said: The word of the
Lord came to me: 7Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum,
will come to you and say, “Buy my land in Anathoth, for you are next
in succession to redeem it by purchase.” 8And just as the
Lord had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the prison compound and
said to me, “Please buy my land in Anathoth, in the territory of Benjamin;
for the right of succession is yours, and you have the duty of redemption.
Buy it.” Then I knew that it was indeed the word of the Lord.
9So I bought the land in Anathoth from my cousin
Hanamel. I weighed out the money to him, seventeen shekels of silver.
10I wrote a deed, sealed it, and had it witnessed; and I
weighed out the silver on a balance. 11I took the deed of
purchase, the sealed text and the open one according to rule and law,
12and gave the deed to Baruch son of Neriah son of Mahseiah
in the presence of my kinsman Hanamel, of the witnesses who were named
in the deed, and all the Judeans who were sitting in the prison compound.
13In their presence I charged Baruch as follows: 14Thus
said the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: “Take these documents, this
deed of purchase, the sealed text and the open one, and put them into
an earthen jar, so that they may last a long time.” 15For
thus said the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: “Houses, fields, and
vineyards shall again be purchased in this land.”
16But after I had given the deed to Baruch
son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord: 17“Ah, Lord God! You
made heaven and earth with Your great might and outstretched arm. Nothing
is too wondrous for You! 18You show kindness to the thousandth
generation, but visit the guilt of the fathers upon their children after
them. O great and mighty God whose name is Lord of Hosts, 19wondrous
in purpose and mighty in deed, whose eyes observe all the ways of men,
so as to repay every man according to his ways, and with the proper
fruit of his deeds! 20You displayed signs and marvels in
the land of Egypt with lasting effect, and won renown in Israel and
among mankind to this very day. 21You freed Your people Israel
from the land of Egypt with signs and marvels, with a strong hand and
an outstretched arm, and with great terror. 22You gave them
this land that You had sworn to their fathers to give them, a land flowing
with milk and honey, 23and they came and took possession
of it. But they did not listen to You or follow Your Teaching; they
did nothing of what You commanded them to do. Therefore you have caused
all this misfortune to befall them. 24Here are the siegemounds,
raised against the city to storm it; and the city, because of sword
and famine and pestilence, is at the mercy of the Chaldeans who are
attacking it. What You threatened has come to pass—as You see. 25Yet
You, Lord God, said to me: Buy the land for money and call in witnesses—when
the city is at the mercy of the Chaldeans!”
26Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:
27“Behold I am the Lord, the
God of all flesh. Is anything too wondrous for Me?
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