Jeremiah 32:7

Hanamel the son of Shallum thine uncle The distinct statement in Jeremiah 32:8 however that Hanamel was Jeremiah's first cousin makes it necessary to refer the word uncleof this v. to Shallum, and to consider the word for sonin Jeremiah 32:12 to have been accidentally omitted by a Heb. copyist.

Anathoth See Intr. p. x.

the right of redemption is thine to buy it According to the law, as formulated in Leviticus 25:24 f.; Ruth 4:6, if land was, or was about to be, sold, the nearest of kin, in this case Jeremiah, had a right to purchase or re-purchase it as the case might be, so that it should not pass from one family to another. For the system of land tenure (although it is doubtful whether the laws regulating it were ever reduced to practice) see HDB. IV. 325 a.