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18 Baruch answered them, “Yes, Jeremiah dictated all these words to me, and I wrote them in the scroll with ink.”

19 Then the officials told Baruch, “Go, hide yourself, both you and Jeremiah, and don’t let anyone know where you are.”

The King Burns Jeremiah’s Scroll

20 The officials[a] went to the king in the courtyard, but they deposited the scroll in the office of Elishama the scribe. Then they reported everything written on the scroll[b] to the king.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 36:20 Lit. They
  2. Jeremiah 36:20 Lit. reported all the words