Fourth year of King Jehoiakim. Jeremiah dictated everything the LORD has said to him since Josiah’s day, and I wrote it all down on a scroll.
Baruch son of Neriah
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I wrote it down. Twice.
A scribe in Jerusalem. I wrote Jeremiah’s words down as he said them, read them out at the temple when he wasn’t allowed in, and wrote the whole thing out again after the king burned it. Went where he went, in the end all the way to Egypt.
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He’s banned from the LORD’s temple. So I’m the one reading it out there, on a fast day, when everyone’s in from the towns.
Fast day, ninth month, city packed. Read the whole scroll out from Gemariah’s room by the New Gate, where everyone could hear.
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He sent men to arrest us both. But the LORD had hidden us.
So Jeremiah got another scroll, and I wrote it all again. Every word the king burned. And a lot more besides.
Jehudi son of Nethaniah@jehudi · The king's winter roomsNinth month, so the king’s in his winter rooms with the fire going. I’m reading the scroll to him. Every three or four columns, he cuts them off with a knife and drops them in the fire. Until the whole scroll was gone.Honestly, I’m exhausted. The LORD’s added sorrow to my pain. Worn out from groaning, and no rest.
They went to Egypt anyway. All of them, as far as Tahpanhes. They took Jeremiah. And me.