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These are the words of the scroll that Baruch—son of Neriah son of Mahseiah son of Zedekiah son of Hasadiah son of Hilkiah—wrote in Babylon
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in the fifth year on the seventh day of the month at the time when the Chaldeans took Jerusalem and burned it down.
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Baruch read the words of this scroll aloud to Judah's King Jeconiah, Jehoiakim's son, and to all the people who came to hear the reading of the scroll,
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and to the powerful ones, the rulers' sons, the elders, and all the people, from the least important to the greatest, and to all the ones who lived in Babylon by the Sud River.