Jeremiah 32 — Hebrew and Greek compared
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Chapter 32
The field purchase during the siege
Hebrew source: BHS32 • chapter 32
Greek source: LXX39 • chapter 39
Verse 32:1 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:1] The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was Nebuchadnezzar's eighteenth year.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:1] The word that came from the Lord to Jeremiah in King Zedekiah's tenth year, which was the eighteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek omits Judah and adds Babylon and the second royal title.
Verse 32:2 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:2] At that time the king of Babylon's army was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the court of the guard at the house of Judah's king.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:2] The king of Babylon's force had built siegeworks against Jerusalem, and Jeremiah was kept in the prison court at the king's house.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek omits prophet and Judah; siegeworks makes the military action explicit.
Verse 32:3 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:3] Zedekiah king of Judah had confined him, saying, Why do you prophesy, saying, Thus says YHWH: I am handing this city over to Babylon's king, and he will capture it?
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:3] King Zedekiah had shut him in there, saying, Why do you prophesy, saying, Thus said the Lord: I am handing this city over to Babylon's king, and he will take it?
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek omits Judah; the quoted prophecy continues through verse five.
Verse 32:4 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:4] Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape the Chaldeans, but will certainly be handed over to Babylon's king. He will speak with him mouth to mouth and see him eye to eye.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:4] Zedekiah will certainly not be saved from the Chaldeans' hand, but will certainly be handed over to Babylon's king. His mouth will speak to his mouth, and his eyes will see his eyes.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek omits king of Judah; the doubled mouth and eye idioms describe direct confrontation.
Verse 32:5 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:5] He will take Zedekiah to Babylon, and he will remain there until I attend to him—YHWH's declaration. Though you fight the Chaldeans, you will not succeed.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:5] Zedekiah will enter Babylon and remain there.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks both the divine visitation limit and the warning against fighting the Chaldeans.
Verse 32:6 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:6] Jeremiah said, YHWH's word came to me:
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:6] The Lord's word came to Jeremiah:
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek third-person report differs from Jeremiah's first-person introduction.
Verse 32:7 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:7] Hanamel son of Shallum your uncle is coming to you, saying, Buy my field at Anathoth, because the right of redemption to buy it is yours.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:7] Hanamel son of Shallum, your father's brother, is coming to you, saying, Acquire my field at Anathoth for yourself, because you have the right to receive it as a possession.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek explicitly identifies the uncle as the father's brother and expresses the property right without the Hebrew redemption term.
Verse 32:8 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:8] Hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the guard, as YHWH had said. He said, Please buy my field at Anathoth in Benjamin's land, because the inheritance right and the redemption are yours; buy it for yourself. Then I knew that this was YHWH's word.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:8] Hanamel son of Shallum, my father's brother, came to me in the prison court and said, Acquire my field in Benjamin's land at Anathoth, because you have the right to acquire it, and you are the elder. Then I knew that this was the Lord's word.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek adds Shallum and the elder status, but lacks as YHWH had said and the explicit inheritance/redemption wording. The Greek kinship phrase attaches to Shallum, as in verse seven.
Verse 32:9 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:9] I bought the field at Anathoth from Hanamel my uncle's son and weighed out the silver to him: seventeen shekels of silver.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:9] I acquired the field of Hanamel, my father's brother's son, and weighed out to him seventeen shekels of silver.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks Anathoth here. Both retain the ancient weight, literally seven shekels and ten; no modern monetary conversion is supplied.
Verse 32:10 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:10] I wrote the deed, sealed it, called witnesses, and weighed the silver on scales.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:10] I wrote a document, sealed it, called witnesses, and weighed the silver on a balance.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The signed transaction and weighing correspond; stand/set has its attested weighing use in this monetary Greek construction.
Verse 32:11 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:11] I took the purchase deed, the sealed copy with its terms and conditions, and the open copy.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:11] I took the purchase document, the sealed one and the one that had been read.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek anegnosmenon says read, whereas Hebrew galuy says open/uncovered. Hebrew terms and conditions have no separate Greek counterpart. The relationship between copies is interpreted from the transaction, not a surviving document.
Verse 32:12 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:12] I gave the purchase deed to Baruch son of Neriah son of Mahseiah, before Hanamel my uncle, before the witnesses who had written in the purchase deed, and before all the Judeans sitting in the court of the guard.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:12] I gave it to Baruch son of Neriah son of Maaseiah, before Hanamel my father's brother's son, before those standing there and writing in the purchase document, and before the Judeans in the prison court.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew here calls Hanamel my uncle despite uncle's son in verses eight and nine; Greek preserves the cousin relationship. This local kinship discrepancy is not silently harmonized. Mahseiah/Maaseiah represent the displayed names; Greek lacks all and sitting.
Verse 32:13 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:13] Before their eyes I instructed Baruch:
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:13] Before their eyes I instructed Baruch:
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The public instruction corresponds.
Verse 32:14 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:14] Thus says YHWH of hosts, Israel's God: Take these documents, this purchase deed, the sealed copy and this open deed, and put them in an earthenware vessel so that they may last many days.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:14] Thus said the Lord Almighty: Take this purchase document and the document that has been read, and put it in an earthenware vessel so that it may last many days.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks Israel's God and the explicit sealed copy here; read differs from open as in verse eleven, and the object pronouns are singular rather than plural.
Verse 32:15 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:15] For thus says YHWH of hosts, Israel's God: Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:15] For thus said the Lord: Fields, houses, and vineyards will again be acquired in this land.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the expanded divine titles and reverses fields/houses order; the restoration promise remains.
Verse 32:16 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:16] After giving the purchase deed to Baruch son of Neriah, I prayed to YHWH:
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:16] After giving the purchase document to Baruch son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord:
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The transition to Jeremiah's prayer corresponds.
Verse 32:17 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:17] Ah, Lord YHWH! You made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too extraordinary for You.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:17] O Lord, You made heaven and earth by Your great strength and Your high, uplifted arm. Nothing can be hidden from You.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek concealment differs from Hebrew pala, extraordinary/beyond one's power. Greek describes the arm as high and uplifted rather than outstretched.
Verse 32:18 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:18] You show steadfast kindness to thousands and repay fathers' guilt into the lap of their children after them—the great, mighty God, whose name is YHWH of hosts,
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:18] You show mercy to thousands and repay fathers' sins into their children's laps after them, the great and strong God,
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The Hebrew name clause is absent at this Greek verse boundary; Greek expands divine titles in the next verse. Guilt and its intergenerational consequences remain explicit in both.
Verse 32:19 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:19] great in counsel and mighty in action. Your eyes are open to all the ways of humankind, to give each person according to his ways and the fruit of his deeds.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:19] Lord of great counsel and powerful in works, the great God, the Almighty and renowned Lord. Your eyes are upon the ways of human beings, to give each according to his way.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek expands the divine titulature and lacks open, all, and the separate fruit-of-deeds clause. Great counsel is not silently changed into another biblical title.
Verse 32:20 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:20] You performed signs and wonders in Egypt, continuing to this day, in Israel and among humankind, and made a name for Yourself as it is today.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:20] You performed signs and wonders in Egypt down to this day, in Israel and among earthborn people, and made a name for Yourself as it is this day.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek gegenes literally earthborn corresponds contextually to human beings; the broad scope is retained.
Verse 32:21 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:21] You brought Your people Israel out of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand, an outstretched arm, and great terror.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:21] You brought Your people Israel out of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a mighty hand, a high arm, and great sights.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek horamata, sights/visions, differs from Hebrew mora, terror; no harmonization to terror in the Greek column.
Verse 32:22 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:22] You gave them this land, which You had sworn to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:22] You gave them this land, which You had sworn to their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the repeated to-give-them clause; the ancestral land promise corresponds.
Verse 32:23 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:23] They came in and possessed it, but did not obey Your voice or walk in Your instruction. They did none of all that You commanded them to do, so You brought all this disaster upon them.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:23] They entered and received it, but did not obey Your voice or walk in Your ordinances. They did none of all that You commanded them, and You caused all these calamities to befall them.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew torah and Greek ordinances express commanded conduct. Hebrew displayed consonants have a plural-shaped form; no unverified marginal reading is claimed here.
Verse 32:24 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:24] The siege ramps have reached the city to capture it. The city is handed over to the Chaldeans fighting against it because of sword, famine, and pestilence. What You spoke has happened, and You see it.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:24] A multitude has reached this city to seize it. The city was handed over to the Chaldeans fighting it because of sword and famine. As You spoke, so it happened.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek multitude differs from Hebrew siege ramps and lacks pestilence and You see it.
Verse 32:25 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:25] Yet You said to me, Lord YHWH, Buy the field with silver and call witnesses—even though the city is handed over to the Chaldeans.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:25] Yet You say to me, Acquire a field with silver. And I wrote a document, sealed it, and called witnesses—even though the city was handed over to the Chaldeans.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek adds Jeremiah's actual writing/sealing/witness action in place of the Hebrew witness command, and lacks the divine address.
Verse 32:26 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:26] YHWH's word came to Jeremiah:
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:26] The Lord's word came to me:
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek first person differs from Hebrew third-person narration.
Verse 32:27 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:27] I am YHWH, God of all flesh. Is anything too extraordinary for Me?
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:27] I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Can anything be hidden from Me?
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek hidden repeats the distinction in verse seventeen from Hebrew pala, beyond power/extraordinary.
Verse 32:28 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:28] Therefore thus says YHWH: I am handing this city over to the Chaldeans and to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will capture it.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:28] Therefore thus said the Lord, Israel's God: This city will certainly be handed over to Babylon's king, and he will take it.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek adds Israel's God but lacks Chaldeans and Nebuchadnezzar's name; the delivery is passive with emphasis.
Verse 32:29 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:29] The Chaldeans fighting this city will come, set this city on fire, and burn it, along with the houses whose roofs they used to burn incense to Baal and pour out libations to other gods to provoke Me.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:29] The Chaldeans fighting this city will come and burn this city with fire. They will burn down the houses on whose roofs they burned incense to Baal and poured libations to other gods to provoke Me bitterly.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The accusation of rooftop worship and resulting burning corresponds.
Verse 32:30 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:30] The children of Israel and Judah have done nothing but evil in My sight from their youth. The children of Israel have done nothing but provoke Me with the work of their hands—YHWH's declaration.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:30] The children of Israel and Judah alone were doing evil in My sight from their youth.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek monoi says alone, rather than Hebrew ak restricting their conduct to evil; Greek lacks the entire second accusation and declaration formula. Its sweeping rhetorical exclusivity is retained, not silently changed to continually.
Verse 32:31 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:31] This city has aroused My anger and fury from the day they built it until this day, so that I would remove it from My presence,
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:31] This city has aroused My anger and wrath from the day they built it until this day, so that I would remove it from My presence,
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The continuing sentence links the judgment to the next verse's offenses.
Verse 32:32 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:32] because of all the evil the children of Israel and Judah committed to provoke Me—they, their kings, their officials, their priests, their prophets, the people of Judah and Jerusalem's inhabitants.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:32] because of all the wicked deeds the children of Israel and Judah committed to embitter Me—they and their kings, their rulers, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah and Jerusalem's inhabitants.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Collective Hebrew man of Judah is rendered idiomatically; Greek uses plural men.
Verse 32:33 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:33] They turned their backs to Me, not their faces. Though I taught them, rising early and teaching, they would not listen and accept discipline.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:33] They turned their backs to Me, not their faces. I taught them from early morning and kept teaching, but they did not listen and take hold of discipline.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both depict persistent divine instruction and refusal. The early-morning idiom conveys diligence without erasing the image.
Verse 32:34 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:34] They set their detestable things in the house over which My name is invoked, defiling it.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:34] They set their pollutions in the house over which My name is invoked, amid their impurities.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek describes impurities rather than using the Hebrew purpose infinitive to defile it.
Verse 32:35 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:35] They built Baal's high places in the Valley of Ben-hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass over to Molech. I had not commanded them, nor had it entered My heart, to do this abomination and cause Judah to sin.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:35] They built the altars to Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer their sons and daughters to Molech the king. I had not instructed them, nor had it entered My heart, to do this abomination and cause Judah to sin.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek explicitly says offer and adds the king to Molech; Hebrew passing-over language is preserved without supplying the word fire, which is not written here. Both condemn the practice.
Verse 32:36 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:36] Now therefore, thus says YHWH, Israel's God, about this city of which you say, It is handed over to Babylon's king by sword, famine, and pestilence:
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:36] And now, thus said the Lord, Israel's God, concerning the city of which you say, It will be handed over to Babylon's king by sword, famine, and a sent affliction:
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew addresses plural you and speaks of an accomplished handing-over; Greek singular you and future differ. Greek apostole literally a sending is provisionally interpreted as a sent affliction, not silently replaced with pestilence.
Verse 32:37 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:37] I am gathering them from all the lands where I drove them in My anger, fury, and great wrath. I will bring them back to this place and make them dwell securely.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:37] I am gathering them from all the land where I scattered them in My anger, wrath, and great indignation. I will bring them back to this place and settle them in confidence.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek singular land and confidence differ slightly from Hebrew plural lands and security.
Verse 32:38 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:38] They will be My people, and I will be their God.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:38] They will be My people, and I will be their God.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The covenant relationship corresponds.
Verse 32:39 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:39] I will give them one heart and one way, to fear Me always, for their good and their children's good after them.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:39] I will give them another way and another heart, to fear Me always, for their good and their children's good after them.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek heteran twice means another/different, versus Hebrew one twice, with heart/way order reversed. Renewal and unity are not made verbally identical.
Verse 32:40 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:40] I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will not turn away from following them to do them good. I will put My fear in their hearts so that they do not turn away from Me.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:40] I will establish an eternal covenant with them, which I will certainly not turn back from behind them. I will put My fear in their heart so that they do not depart from Me.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek has the covenant as the relative object and lacks to-do-them-good. Its difficult turn-back/behind wording is retained provisionally; the clause concerns the covenant's permanence.
Verse 32:41 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:41] I will rejoice over them to do them good and will plant them faithfully in this land with all My heart and all My soul.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:41] I will attend to them to do them good and will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all heart and all soul.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek visitation/attention differs from Hebrew rejoicing and lacks the explicit My suffixes on heart and soul; divine agency remains the contextual referent.
Verse 32:42 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:42] For thus says YHWH: Just as I brought all this great disaster upon this people, so I am bringing upon them all the good I promise them.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:42] For thus said the Lord: Just as I brought all these great calamities upon this people, so I will bring upon them all the good things I spoke concerning them.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The balanced reversal of disaster and good corresponds, with tense and number differences.
Verse 32:43 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:43] Fields will be bought in this land of which you say, It is a desolation, without people or animals; it is handed over to the Chaldeans.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:43] Fields will again be acquired in the land of which you say, It is untrodden by people and animals, and they were handed over to the Chaldeans.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek adds again, addresses singular you, and has plural they-were-handed-over rather than Hebrew singular land. The plural's reference is not silently repaired.
Verse 32:44 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[32:44] Fields will be bought with silver, deeds written and sealed, and witnesses called in Benjamin's land, around Jerusalem, in Judah's cities, the hill-country cities, the lowland cities, and the Negeb cities. For I will restore their fortunes—YHWH's declaration.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[39:44] They will acquire fields with silver, and you will write a document, seal it, and call witnesses in Benjamin's land, around Jerusalem, in Judah's cities, the hill-country cities, the cities of the Shephelah, and the cities of the Negeb, because I will bring back their exiles.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek shifts to singular you for document writing and lacks the concluding declaration. Greek return of exiles differs from the broader Hebrew restoration idiom; Shephelah names the lowland region.