Jeremiah 32:13

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

I charged Baruch before them, saying,

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בָּר֔וּךְ

Bârûwk

H1263

“Baruch”

Noun, Proper

Appears 26× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Nehemiah 3:20

Full BDB Definition

Origin: pass. participle from H1288

TWOT: None

Baruch = "blessed" - friend, amanuensis, and faithful attendant of Jeremiah - a priest, the son of Zabbai who assisted Nehemiah in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem - a priest, or family of priests, who signed the covenant with Nehemiah - son of Col-hozeh, a descendant of Perez or Pharez, the son of Judah

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

5: words
5: distinct lemmas
Prophets: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

בָּר֔וּךְ Baruch H1263 occurs in 24 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
2 nouns
1 particle

Verb forms

וָֽאֲצַוֶּה֙ Piel · Sequential Imperfect
לֵאמֹֽר Qal · Infinitive Construct

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Jeremiah 32:13 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וָֽאֲצַוֶּה֙ אֶת בָּר֔וּךְ לְעֵינֵיהֶ֖ם לֵאמֹֽר

I charged Baruch before them, saying,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Structure differs

In the Septuagint, Jeremiah is about an eighth shorter than the Hebrew and arranges its material differently — the Oracles Against the Nations (Hebrew chapters 46–51) appear in the middle of the Greek book, after 25:13. Because the chapter and verse boundaries do not line up, a verse-for-verse comparison with the Hebrew is not shown.

A verse-for-verse comparison isn’t shown here because the chapters and verses don’t line up. Switch to the LXX edition with the MT / LXX toggle above to read the Greek directly.

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from a public-domain English Septuagint. How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וּפַקְדֵית יַת בָּרוּךְ לְעֵינֵיהוֹן לְמֵימָר:

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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Jeremiah 32:13 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Jer 32:13 And I charged Baruch before them, saying,

Ver. 13. And I charged Baruch.] See on Jer 32:12.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

32:13-14 According to custom, the two copies of the deed were placed in a pottery jar so that they would be preserved for a long time.

John Gill's Exposition

Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel,.... The order to do the following is ushered in in this solemn manner, partly that Baruch might more strictly observe it, and act according to it; and partly that the persons before whom it was given might take the greater notice of it, and believe that there was something intended by it of moment and importance:

take these evidences; or "books" (x); the deeds of purchase:

this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; both the original and the copy:

and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days; it seems, though it is not said, that this earthen vessel, with these deeds in it, were to be put under ground, and very probably in some part of the field that was bought: had these writings been laid up in a chest or box, they might have been stolen and destroyed; and had they been laid in the earth by themselves, they would have rotted and consumed; but being put into a dry earthen vessel, they might be preserved from the injury of the air and the moistness of the earth; and so might continue many days, even many years, to the end of the captivity, as it was designed they should; when Jeremiah's heirs, having some him of them where they were deposited, might take them up and claim the estate; though something more useful and instructive than this was designed by it, as appears by the following words:

(x) "libellos hos", Cocceius, Schmidt; "literas has", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

General Information:

Jeremiah continues speaking.

before them

Here "them" refers to Hanamel, the witnesses, and the Judeans.

Yahweh of hosts ... says this

Jeremiah often uses these words to introduce an important message from Yahweh. See how you translated this in Jeremiah 6:6.

Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land

This can be translated in active form. AT: "The people of Israel will buy houses, vineyards and fields again in this land" (See: Active or Passive)

translationWords

Yahweh of hosts

God

Israel

vineyard

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Lesson kit

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Jeremiah, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 5 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Bârûwk (“Baruch”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Baruch” (Bârûwk) shape what this verse is saying?
Nehemiah 3:20 shares the word «Baruch» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
The verb «וָֽאֲצַוֶּה֙» is Piel Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 5 words in this verse.