in the fifth year, on the seventh day of the month, at the time when the Chaldeans took Jerusalem and burned it with fire.

At the same time, on the tenth day of Sivan, Baruch took the vessels of the house of the Lord that had been carried away from the temple, to return them to the land of Judah—the silver vessels that Zedekiah son of Josiah, king of Judah, had made

From the time when the Lord brought our ancestors out of the land of Egypt until today, we have been disobedient to the Lord our God, and we have been negligent in not listening to his voice.

So to this day there have clung to us the calamities and the curse that the Lord declared through his servant Moses at the time when he brought our ancestors out of the land of Egypt to give to us a land flowing with milk and honey.

Learn where there is wisdom, where there is strength, where there is understanding, so that you may at the same time discern where there is length of days and life, where there is light for the eyes and peace.

But the one who knows all things knows her; he found her by his understanding. The one who prepared the earth for all time filled it with four-footed creatures;

For fire will come upon her from the Everlasting for many days, and for a long time she will be inhabited by demons.