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⚠️ The Chinese and English alongside are the CUV and the WEB, both translated from the Masoretic Text; they follow a different textual tradition from the Greek and Latin shown here and will disagree in places.
When Jeremiah had finished speaking to all the people all the words of Yahweh their God, with which Yahweh their God had sent him to them, even all these words,
then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, “You speak falsely. Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, ‘You shall not go into Egypt to live there;’
but Baruch the son of Neriah has turned you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death or carry us away captive to Babylon.”
But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces took all the remnant of Judah, who had returned from all the nations where they had been driven, to live in the land of Judah—
the men, the women, the children, the king’s daughters, and every person who Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.
“Take great stones in your hand and hide them in mortar in the brick work which is at the entry of Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah.
Tell them, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne on these stones that I have hidden; and he will spread his royal pavilion over them.
He will come, and will strike the land of Egypt; such as are for death will be put to death, and such as are for captivity to captivity, and such as are for the sword to the sword.
I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt. He will burn them, and carry them away captive. He will array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment; and he will go out from there in peace.
And all the rulers sent to Barouch son of Nerias Ioudin son of Nathanias son of Selemias son of Chousi, saying: The scroll from which you are reading into the ears of the people—take it into your hand and come. And Barouch took the scroll and went down to them.
And it happened, when they heard all the words, that they took counsel each with his neighbor and said: We must surely report to the king all these words.
And they went in to the king, into the court, and they gave the scroll to be kept in the house of Elisama, and they reported to the king all the words.
And the king sent Ioudin to take the scroll, and he took it from the house of Elisama; and Ioudin read it into the ears of the king and into the ears of all the rulers who were standing around the king.
And it happened that, as Ioudin read three columns and four, he would cut them off with the scribe's razor and throw them into the fire that was on the brazier, until the whole scroll was consumed in the fire on the brazier.
And you shall say: Thus said the Lord: You burned this scroll, saying, Why did you write on it, saying: The king of Babylon shall surely come in and utterly destroy this land, and man and beast shall cease from it?
Therefore thus said the Lord concerning Ioakim king of Judah: He shall have none sitting on the throne of David; and his corpse shall be cast out in the heat of the day and in the frost of the night.
And I will visit upon him and upon his offspring and upon his servants, and I will bring upon them and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem and upon the land of Judah all the evils which I spoke to them, and they did not listen.
And Barouch took another scroll and wrote on it from the mouth of Ieremias all the words of the book which Ioakim had burned; and there were yet added to it many more words like these.