Chelcias, wrote in Babylon,

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In the fifth year, and in the seventh day of the month, what
time as the Chaldeans took Jerusalem, and burnt it with fire.

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And Baruch did read the words of this book in the hearing of
Jechonias the son of Joachim king of Juda, and in the ears of
all the people that came to hear the book,

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And in the hearing of the nobles, and of the king's sons, and
in the hearing of the elders, and of all the people, from the
lowest unto the highest, even of all them that dwelt at Babylon
by the river Sud.

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Whereupon they wept, fasted, and prayed before the Lord.

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They made also a collection of money according to every man's
power:

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And they sent it to Jerusalem unto Joachim the high priest,
the son of Chelcias, son of Salom, and to the priests, and to
all the people which were found with him at Jerusalem,

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At the same time when he received the vessels of the house of
the Lord, that were carried out of the temple, to return them
into the land of Juda, the tenth day of the month Sivan, namely,
silver vessels, which Sedecias the son of Josias king of Jada
had made,

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After that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away
Jechonias, and the princes, and the captives, and the mighty
men, and the people of the land, from Jerusalem, and brought
them unto Babylon.

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And they said, Behold, we have sent you money to buy you
burnt offerings, and sin offerings, and incense, and prepare ye
manna, and offer upon the altar of the Lord our God;

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And pray for the life of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and
for the life of Balthasar his son, that their days may be upon
earth as the days of heaven:

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And the Lord will give us strength, and lighten our eyes, and
we shall live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor king of
Babylon, and under the shadow of Balthasar his son, and we shall
serve them many days, and find favour in their sight.

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Pray for us also unto the Lord our God, for we have sinned
against the Lord our God; and unto this day the fury of the Lord
and his wrath is not turned from us.

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And ye shall read this book which we have sent unto you, to
make confession in the house of the Lord, upon the feasts and
solemn days.

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And ye shall say, To the Lord our God belongeth
righteousness, but unto us the confusion of faces, as it is come
to pass this day, unto them of Juda