1. Now these are the words of the scroll which Baruch, son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, son of Zedekiah, son of Hasadiah, son of Hilkiah, wrote in Babylon,
2. in the fifth year, on the seventh day of the month, at the time the Chaldeans took Jerusalem and destroyed it with fire.
3. Baruch read the words of this scroll in the hearing of Jeconiah, son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the people who came to the reading:
4. the nobles, kings’ sons, elders, and all the people, small and great—all who lived in Babylon by the river Sud.