Jeremiah Rewrites the Scroll

27 Now after the king had burned the scroll with the words which Baruch had written [a]at the instruction of Jeremiah, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying: 28 “Take yet another scroll, and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned. 29 And you shall say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, ‘Thus says the Lord: “You have burned this scroll, saying, (A)‘Why have you written in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and cause man and beast to (B)cease from here?’ ”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 36:27 Lit. from Jeremiah’s mouth

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