So Baruch son of Neriah did everything the prophet Jeremiah had commanded him. At the Lord’s temple he read the Lord’s words from the scroll.

Baruch Reads the Scroll

In the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month,(A) all the people of Jerusalem and all those coming in from Judah’s cities into Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before the Lord.(B) 10 Then at the Lord’s temple, in the chamber of Gemariah son of Shaphan the scribe,(C) in the upper courtyard at the opening of the New Gate(D) of the Lord’s temple, in the hearing of all the people, Baruch read Jeremiah’s words from the scroll.

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