Fields; rather, land; the Hebrew has "the field," i.e. the open country (as Jeremiah 4:17, etc.). We must then continue "in this country," and in Jeremiah 32:44, "men shall buy lands."
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Jeremiah 32:43
Jeremiah 32:43
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