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These are the words of the book 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 with fire.
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Baruch read the words of this book to Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and to all the people who came to hear the book,
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and to the nobles and the princes, and to the elders, and to all the people, small and great, all who lived in Babylon by the river Sud.
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Then they wept, and fasted, and prayed before the Lord;
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