⁴ Then Jeremiah sent for Baruch, the son of Neriah; and Baruch took down from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord which he had said to him, writing them in a book.

¹² And I gave the paper to Baruch, the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, before the eyes of Hanamel, the son of my father's brother, and of the witnesses who had put their names to the paper, and before all the Jews who were seated in the place of the armed watchmen.

⁹ And looking, I saw a hand stretched out to me, and I saw the roll of a book in it;

³² Then Jeremiah took another book, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who put down in it, from the mouth of Jeremiah, all the words of the book which had been burned in the fire by Jehoiakim, king of Judah: and in addition a number of other words of the same sort.

³ But Baruch, the son of Neriah, is moving you against us, to give us up into the hands of the Chaldaeans so that they may put us to death, and take us away prisoners into Babylon.

²² I, Tertius, who have done the writing of this letter, send love in the Lord.

¹ Then again lifting up my eyes I saw a roll in flight through the air.

¹ The words which Jeremiah the prophet said to Baruch, the son of Neriah, when he put these words down in a book from the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah; he said,

² This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said of you, O Baruch:

²⁸ Take another book and put down in it all the words which were in the first book, which Jehoiakim, king of Judah, put into the fire.

²⁶ And the king gave orders to Jerahmeel, the king's son, and Seraiah, the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah, the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the Lord kept them safe.

²³ And it came about that whenever Jehudi, in his reading, had got through three or four divisions, the king, cutting them with his penknife, put them into the fire, till all the book was burned up in the fire which was burning in the fireplace.

²¹ So the king sent Jehudi to get the book, and he took it from the room of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi gave a reading of it in the hearing of the king and all the rulers who were by the king's side.

¹⁷ And questioning Baruch, they said, Say now, how did you put all these words down in writing from his mouth?

¹⁸ Then Baruch, answering, said, He said all these things to me by word of mouth, and I put them down with ink in the book.

¹ And the Lord said to me, Take a great writing-board, and on it put down in common letters, Maher-shalal-hash-baz;