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16 When they heard all its words, they were alarmed and said to Baruch: "We must at once report all this to the king!"
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When they heard all these words, they looked at each other in fear and said to Baruch, “We must report all these words to the king.”
17 Then they asked Baruch, "Tell us, how did you write all these words? Did they come from Jeremiah?"
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Then they asked Baruch, “Tell us, how did you come to write all this? Did Jeremiah dictate it?”
18 Baruch replied, "He dictated all the words to me, and I wrote them with ink in the scroll."
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“Yes,” Baruch replied, “he dictated all these words to me, and I wrote them in ink on the scroll.”
19 The officials then said to Baruch, "You and Jeremiah had better go and hide. And don't let anyone know where you are."
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Then the officials said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah, go and hide. Don’t let anyone know where you are.”
20 After leaving the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe, they went to the king's court and told him everything.
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After they put the scroll in the room of Elishama the secretary, they went to the king in the courtyard and reported everything to him.
21 The king sent Jehudi to take the scroll, and he retrieved it from the room of Elishama the scribe. Then Jehudi read it to the king and all his royal officials who were standing next to the king.
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The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and Jehudi brought it from the room of Elishama the secretary and read it to the king and all the officials standing beside him.
22 Now it was the ninth month, and the king was staying in the winterized part of the palace with the firepot burning near him.
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It was the ninth month and the king was sitting in the winter apartment, with a fire burning in the firepot in front of him.
23 And whenever Jehudi read three or four columns of the scroll, the king would cut them off with a scribe's knife and throw them into the firepot until the whole scroll was burned up.
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Whenever Jehudi had read three or four columns of the scroll, the king cut them off with a scribe’s knife and threw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll was burned in the fire.
24 Neither the king nor any of his attendants who heard all these words were alarmed or tore their clothes.
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The king and all his attendants who heard all these words showed no fear, nor did they tear their clothes.
25 Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah begged the king not to burn the scroll, but he wouldn't listen to them.
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Even though Elnathan, Delaiah and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.
26 The king commanded Jerahmeel, the king's son, along with Seraiah, Azriel's son, and Shelemiah, Abdeel's son, to arrest the scribe Baruch and the prophet Jeremiah. But the LORD hid them.
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Instead, the king commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the LORD had hidden them.
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