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Jeremiah 36:20-28 (RSV)

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²⁰ So they went into the court to the king, having put the scroll in the chamber of Eli'shama the secretary; and they reported all the words to the king. ²¹ Then the king sent Jehu'di to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Eli'shama the secretary; and Jehu'di read it to the king and all the princes who stood beside the king. ²² It was the ninth month, and the king was sitting in the winter house and there was a fire burning in the brazier before him. ²³ As Jehu'di read three or four columns, the king would cut them off with a penknife and throw them into the fire in the brazier, until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier. ²⁴ Yet neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words, was afraid, nor did they rend their garments. ²⁵ Even when Elna'than and Delai'ah and Gemari'ah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them. ²⁶ And the king commanded Jerah'meel the king's son and Serai'ah the son of Az'ri-el and Shelemi'ah the son of Abdeel to seize Baruch the secretary and Jeremiah the prophet, but the LORD hid them. ²⁷ Now, after the king had burned the scroll with the words which Baruch wrote at Jeremiah's dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: ²⁸ "Take another scroll and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoi'akim the king of Judah has burned.

Definition(s):
Abdeel (Ab-de-el): a vapor; a cloud of God
Baruch (Bar-ook): who is blessed
Jeremiah (Jer-em-eye-ya): exaltation of the Lord
Judah (Joo-da): the praise of the Lord; confession