Purchase

Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”

If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of each other.

Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.

You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property.

If many years remain, he must pay for his redemption in proportion to his purchase price.

Then I took the deed of purchase—the sealed copy with its terms and conditions, as well as the open copy—

…and I gave this deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who were signing the purchase agreement and all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.

“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Take these deeds—both the sealed copy and the open copy of the deed of purchase—and put them in a clay jar to preserve them for a long time.

After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch son of Neriah, I prayed to the LORD:

…those who weep, as if they did not; those who are joyful, as if they were not; those who make a purchase, as if they had nothing;