43 When Jeremiah had finished telling the people all the words of the Lord their God – everything the Lord had sent him to tell them – Azariah son of Hoshaiah and Johanan son of Kareah and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, ‘You are lying! The Lord our God has not sent you to say, “You must not go to Egypt to settle there.” But Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us to hand us over to the Babylonians,[a] so that they may kill us or carry us into exile to Babylon.’

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 43:3 Or Chaldeans