These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Jeremiah 36
Tanakh 32 verses
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And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of , of , that this came unto from , saying:
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Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against , and against , and against all the nations, from the day I spoke unto thee, from the days of , even unto this day.
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Jeremiah 30:2 Exodus 17:14 Jeremiah 1:10 Jeremiah 25:3 Jeremiah 1:5 Isaiah 8:1 Jeremiah 36:23 Ezekiel 2:9 Jeremiah 51:60 Jeremiah 1:2-3 Jeremiah 23:13-14 Jeremiah 25:9-29 Jeremiah 3:3-10 Psalm 40:7 Ezra 6:2 Jeremiah 36:6 Jeremiah 36:29 Habakkuk 2:2-3 Jeremiah 47:1-7 2 Kings 17:18-20 Jeremiah 2:4 Job 31:35 Revelation 5:1-9 Deuteronomy 31:24 Zechariah 5:1-4 Hosea 8:12 Ezekiel 3:1-3 Jeremiah 32:30-35 Jeremiah 45:1 Isaiah 30:8-9 -
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It may be that the house of will all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way, and I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.’
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Jeremiah 18:8 Ezekiel 12:3 Jeremiah 26:3 Jeremiah 36:7 Deuteronomy 30:2 Jeremiah 35:15 Jeremiah 18:11 Mark 4:12 1 Samuel 7:3 Acts 3:19 Deuteronomy 30:8 Ezekiel 18:27-28 Ezekiel 18:23 Luke 3:7-9 Isaiah 55:6-7 2 Timothy 2:25-26 2 Peter 3:9 Jeremiah 24:7 Jonah 3:8-10 Ezekiel 33:14-16 Jeremiah 23:14 Matthew 3:7-9 1 Kings 8:48-50 Nehemiah 1:9 Luke 20:13 Zephaniah 2:3 Isaiah 6:10 Acts 28:27 Acts 26:18 2 Chronicles 6:38-39 Matthew 13:15 Deuteronomy 5:29 Acts 26:20 Ezekiel 33:7-9 - 4 Then called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of all the words of , which He had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
- 5 And commanded Baruch, saying: ‘I am detained, I cannot go into the house of ;
- 6 therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of in the ears of the people in Yahweh’S house upon a fast-day; and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all that come out of their cities.
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It may be they will present their supplication before , and will return every one from his evil way; for great is the anger and the fury that hath pronounced against this people.’
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Jeremiah 36:3 2 Chronicles 33:12-13 Jeremiah 21:5 2 Kings 22:13 Lamentations 4:11 Jeremiah 4:4 2 Kings 22:17 Ezekiel 20:33 Ezekiel 13:13 Hosea 14:1-3 Deuteronomy 28:15-68 Ezekiel 8:18 Ezekiel 24:8-13 Jeremiah 1:3 Jeremiah 26:3 Ezekiel 5:13 Deuteronomy 29:18-28 Jeremiah 25:5 2 Chronicles 34:21 Jeremiah 19:15 Zechariah 1:4 Jeremiah 16:10 Jonah 3:8 Deuteronomy 31:17 Hosea 5:15 1 Kings 8:33-36 Ezekiel 22:20 Daniel 9:13 -
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And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that the commanded him, reading in the book the words of in Yahweh’S house.
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- 9 Now it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of , of , in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before , all the people in , and all the people that came from the cities of unto .
- 10 Then did Baruch read in the book the words of in the house of , in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of Yahweh’S house, in the ears of all the people.
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And when Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of ,
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- 12 he went down into the king’s house, into the scribe’s chamber; and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.
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Then Micaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
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- 14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying: ‘Take in thy hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come.’ So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.
- 15 And they said unto him: ‘Sit down now, and read it in our ears.’ So Baruch read it in their ears.
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Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they turned in one toward another, and said unto Baruch: ‘We will surely tell the of all these words.’
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And they asked Baruch, saying: ‘Tell us now: How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?’
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Then Baruch answered them: ‘He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.’
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- 19 Then said the princes unto Baruch: ‘Go, hide thee, thou and , and let no man where ye are.’
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And they went in to the into the court; but they had deposited the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe; and they told all the words in the ears of the .
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So the sent Jehudi to fetch the roll; and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the , and in the ears of all the princes that stood beside the .
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Now the was sitting in the winter-house in the ninth month; and the brazier was burning before him.
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- 23 And it came to pass, when Jehudi had read three or four columns, that he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
- 24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the , nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
- 25 Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had entreated the not to burn the roll; but he would not them.
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And the commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and the ; but hid them.
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Then the of came to , after that the had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of , saying:
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Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the of hath burned.
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- 29 And concerning Jehoiakim of thou shalt say: Thus saith : Thou hast burned this roll, saying: Why hast thou written therein, saying: The of shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?
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Therefore thus saith concerning Jehoiakim of : He shall have none to sit upon the throne of ; and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
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- 31 And I will visit upon him and his seed and his servants their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of , and upon the men of , all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they hearkened not.’
- 32 Then took another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of all the words of the book which Jehoiakim of had burned in the fire; and there were added besides unto them many like words.