14. all the officials sent Jehudi son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to say to Baruch, ‘Bring the scroll from which you have read to the people and come.’ So Baruch son of Neriah went to them with the scroll in his hand.
15. They said to him, ‘Sit down, please, and read it to us.’So Baruch read it to them.
16. When they heard all these words, they looked at each other in fear and said to Baruch, ‘We must report all these words to the king.’
17. Then they asked Baruch, ‘Tell us, how did you come to write all this? Did Jeremiah dictate it?’
18. ‘Yes,’ Baruch replied, ‘he dictated all these words to me, and I wrote them in ink on the scroll.’