15. “Sit down,” they said, “and read the scroll to us.” So Baruch did.
16. After he had read it, they turned to one another in alarm, and said to Baruch, “We must report this to the king.”
17. Then they asked him, “Tell us, now, how did you come to write all this? Did Jeremiah dictate it to you?”
18. Baruch answered, “Jeremiah dictated every word of it to me, and I wrote it down in ink on this scroll.”
19. Then they said to him, “You and Jeremiah must go and hide. Don't let anyone know where you are.”