Innis

After Jeremiah signed the deed his cousin Hanamel signed it and then the witnesses signed it and then Jeremiah handed the whole sealed document to Baruch and told him to put it in a clay jar and keep it. He did not do this because he thought the jar would survive the siege. He did this because he thought it would survive the exile, the decades, the return, the arguments about who owned what when everything was being rebuilt and everyone had a different memory of how things had been. The jar was for the dispute that hadn't happened yet. That is what witnesses are for.