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.’
19. Then the officials said to Baruch, ‘You and Jeremiah, go and hide. Don’t let anyone know where you are.’
20. After they put the scroll in the room of Elishama the secretary, they went to the king in the courtyard and reported everything to him.