The Byble in Englyshe that is to saye, the content of all the holye scrypture, bothe of the olde and newe Testament, truly translated after the veryte of the Hebrue and Greke textes, by the diligent studye of dyuers excellent lerned [men e]xperte in the fore[saide] tongues.

CAPI. XXXVI.

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¶ Baruch wryteth (as Ieremy endyteth) the boke of the cursses agaynste Iuda and Israel He is sent with the boke vnto the people, and readeth it before them all. He is colled before the rulers, and readeth it before them also. The ru∣lars shewe vnto the Kynge the wordes of the boke Iehuti taketh the boke, and readeth a lyttell of it, and after casteth it in the fyre. There is another wrytten, at the commaunde∣mente of the Lorde.

IN the fourth yeare of Iehoakim y^• sonne of Iosiah Kyng of Iuda, came the worde of the Lorde vnto Ieremy, sayinge. * 1.1 Take a boke, and wryte therin al the wordes, that I haue spoken to y^• / agaynst Israel against Iuda / and agaynste all the people / from the tyme that I beganne for to speake vnto the (in the raygne of Iosiah) vnto this day. That when the house of Iuda hereth of the plage, whiche I haue deuysed for thē, they maye peraduenture * 1.2 turne / euery man frō hys wycked way / that I may forgeue theyr offences and synnes. Then dyd Ieremy call Baruch the sonne of Neriah, * 1.3 and Baruch wrote in the boke at the mouth of Ieremy / all the wordes of the Lorde, which he had spoken vnto hym. And Ieremy commaunded Baruch, saying: I am in pre¦son, so that I maye nat come into the house [unspec B] of the Lorde: therfore go thou thyther, and reade the boke, that thou hast wryten at my mouth: Namely, the wordes of the Lorde, and rede them in the Lordes house vpon the fastynge daye, that the people, whole Iuda, & all they that come out of the cyties, maye heare: Peraduenture they wyll praye mekely before the face of the Lorde, & turne euery one from his wycked waye. For greate is the wrath & dyspleasure, that the Lorde hathe taken agaynste thys people.

So Baruch the sonne of Neriah dyd, ac¦cordyng vnto all that Ieremy the prophete cōmaunded hym, readynge the wordes of y^• Lorde out of the boke in the Lordes house. And this was done in y^• lyft yeare of Iehoa kim the sonne of Iosiah kynge of Iuda, in the. ix. mouth * 1.4 when it was commaunded, that all the people of Ierusalē shulde faste before the Lord, & they also that were come

from the cyties of Iuda vnto Ierusalem.

Then red Baruch the wordes of Ieremy [unspec C] out of the boke with in y^• house of the Lorde, out of the treasury of Gamariah the sonne of Saphan the Scrybe, whiche is besyde the hyer lofte of the * 1.5 newe dore of the Lor∣des house: that all the people myght heare. Nowe when Micheah the sonne Gamariah the sonne of Saphan had harde all the wor¦des of the Lorde out of the boke, he wente downe to the kynges palace in to the Scry¦bes chambre, for there all the Prynces were set: Elysama the Scrybe, Dalaiah the sōne of Semei, Elnathan the sonne of Achbor / Gamariah the sōne of Saphan, Zedekiah the sonne of Hananiah, with all the Pryn∣ces. And Mischeah tolde them all the wor∣des, that he harde Baruch rede out of the boke before the people.

Then all the Prynces sent Iehudi the [unspec D] sonne of Nathaniah, the sōne of Selamiah the sonne of Chusi, vnto Baruch, sayinge: Take in thyne hande y^• boke, wherout thou haste rede before all the people, and come. So Baruch the sonne of Neriah toke the boke in his hande, and came vnto thē. And they sayde vnto hym: Syt downe, and rede the boke y^• we may heare also. So Baruch red that they myght here. Nowe when they had hearde all y^• wordes, they were abashed one vpon another, and sayde vnto Baruch: We wyll certyfye the kynge of all these wor¦des. And they examyned Baruch, saying: [unspec E] tell vs, howe dydest thou wryte all these wordes out of his mouth? Then Baruch answered them: He spake all these wordes vnto me with his mouth, and I wrote them in the boke.

Then sayde the Prynces vnto Baruch: Go thy waye, and hyde the with Ieremy, so that no man knowe where ye be. And they went in to the kynge to the courte. But they kepte the boke in the chambre of Eli∣sama the Scrybe, and tolde the kynge all the wordes that he myght heare. So the kynge sent Iehudi to fetch hym the boke, which he brought out of Elisama the▪ Scry¦bes chambre. And Iehudi red in it, that the kynge and all the prynces, whiche were about hym, myght heare. Nowe the kynge satan the wynter house, for it was in the. ix. Moneth, and there was a fyre before hym. And when Ieiudi had red thre or foure lea∣ues therof, he cut the boke in peces with a penne knyfe / and * 1.6 cast it into the fyre vpō the harth / vntyll the boke was all brente in the fyre vpon the harth. Yet no man was [unspec F] abashed therof, or rente his clothes: neyther the kynge hym selfe / nor his seruauntes / though they hearde all these wordes. Ne∣uerthelesse Elnathan, Dalaiah, and Ga∣mariah besought the kynge / that he wolde nat burne the boke: nat withstandynge the kynge wolde nat heare them / but cōmaun∣ded Ierahmael the sonne of Amalech. Sa∣raiah the sonne of Ezriel and Selamiah the sonne of Abdiel / to laye handes vpon Baruch the Scrybe / and vpon Ieremy the Prophete: but the Lorde kepte them out of syght. After nowe that the kynge had brent the boke / and the sermons whiche Baruch wrote at the mouth of Ieremy: The worde of the Lorde came vnto Ieremy / sayinge: Take another boke / and ☞ wryte in it all the forsayde sermons: that were wrytten in the fyrst boke / whiche Iehoakim the kynge of Iuda hathe brente. And tell Ieoakim [unspec G] the kynge of Iuda: thus sayeth the Lorde thou hast brente the boke, and thoughtest within thy selfe: Why hast thou wryttē ther in, that the kynge of Babylon shall come, & make thys lande waste: so y^• he shall make bothe people and catel to be out of it? Ther fore thus the Lorde sayeth of Iehoakim y^• kynge of Iuda: * 1.7 There shall none of hys generacyon syt vpon the throne of Dauid. Hys deed corse shalbe cast out, that y^• heate of the daye, and the frost of the nyght maye come vpon hym. And I wyll byset the wyc∣kednes of hym, of hys sede and of hys ser∣uaūtes. More ouer, all the euel that I haue promysed them (though they herde me nat) wyl I bringe vpon them, vpon the inhaby∣tours of Ierusalem, & vpon all Iuda. Thē toke Ieremy another boke, and gaue it Ba¦ruch the Scrybe the sonne Neriah, whiche wrote therin out of the mouth of Ieremy: all the sermons that were in the fyrst boke, whiche Iehoakim the kynge of Iuda dyd burne. And ther were added vnto thē many mo sermons, then before.

Notes

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  Iere. xxvi. ••
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  i. Mat. 3. ••.
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  4. Re. 24. b. Iere. xxii. ••.