And I signed on the letter and sealed [it], and I called witnesses as witness, and I weighed out the money on a set of scales.

Then I took the deed of the purchase, the sealed [copy containing] the commandments and the rules, together with the [one] that was open.

'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase, the sealed one, and this opened deed, and you must put them in an {earthenware jar} so that they may be kept preserved many days."