15. They said to him, “Sit down now, and read it in our hearing.”So Baruch read it in their hearing.
16. Now when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one towards another, and said to Baruch, “We will surely tell the king of all these words.”
17. They asked Baruch, saying, “Tell us now, how did you write all these words at his mouth?”
18. Then Baruch answered them, “He dictated all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.”