Jeremiah Prays and God Explains

16 “After giving the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I (A)prayed to the Lord, saying,

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16 “After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch(A) son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord:

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Then Jeremiah called (A)Baruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote on a [a](B)scroll [b]at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord which He had spoken to him. Jeremiah then commanded Baruch, saying, “I am [c](C)restricted; I cannot go into the house of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 36:4 Lit scroll of a book
  2. Jeremiah 36:4 Lit from the mouth of
  3. Jeremiah 36:5 Lit restrained

So Jeremiah called Baruch(A) son of Neriah,(B) and while Jeremiah dictated(C) all the words the Lord had spoken to him, Baruch wrote them on the scroll.(D) Then Jeremiah told Baruch, “I am restricted; I am not allowed to go to the Lord’s temple.

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32 Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch the son of Neriah, and he (A)wrote on it at the [a]dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many [b]similar words were added to them.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 36:32 Lit from his mouth
  2. Jeremiah 36:32 Lit like those

32 So Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and as Jeremiah dictated,(A) Baruch wrote(B) on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned(C) in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.

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but (A)Baruch the son of Neriah is inciting you against us in order to hand us over to the Chaldeans, so they will put us to death or exile us to Babylon!”

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But Baruch(A) son of Neriah is inciting you against us to hand us over to the Babylonians,[a] so they may kill us or carry us into exile to Babylon.”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 43:3 Or Chaldeans

Message to Baruch

45 This is the message which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to (A)Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had (B)written these words in a book [a]at Jeremiah’s dictation, in the (C)fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying:

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  1. Jeremiah 45:1 Lit from the mouth of Jeremiah

A Message to Baruch

45 When Baruch(A) son of Neriah(B) wrote on a scroll(C) the words Jeremiah the prophet dictated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim(D) son of Josiah king of Judah, Jeremiah said this to Baruch:

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