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The Book of Baruch and Epistle of Jeremy/Jeremiah

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Baruch is essentially an extension or sequel to the Book of Jeremiah, and to a lesser extent Lamentations. Sometimes all three books have been combined, but Baruch is mostly known from Greek.

Conversely, the Epistle of Jeremiah or Letter of Jeremy etc is the sixth chapter and sometimes taken out and listed as a separate book. In the Orthodox canon, the Epistle is sometimes included in the Book of Odes.

Just to be even more confusing, there are several other books known as "Baruch" such as the Apocalypse of Baruch (sometimes called 2 Baruch). This post deals with the book found in the western apocrypha not the Pseudepigraphical works.

The LDS Bible dictionary tells us:
So called because it purports to contain a work written by Baruch, the prophet, in Babylon, in the fifth year after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans. Most scholars feel that it was probably composed at a later date.

Attached to the Book of Baruch is the so-called Epistle of Jeremy, purporting to be a letter written by the prophet Jeremiah to the Jews who were being carried away captive to Babylon.
Summary
The letter is a declamation of idol worship based on Jeremiah 10.11
Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
https://www.abibleaday.com/bible-books/baruch/
Baruch is a disciple, follower, and trusted friend of Jeremiah. He is also the scribe who wrote down Jeremiah’s words as dictated to him (Jeremiah 36:4).

Baruch is the author of the book of Baruch (or at least the first part of it), which serves as a follow-up to the book of Jeremiah since it was written after the people are exiled.

After the introduction, Baruch contains a confession of the nation of Israel‘s guilt and prayer for deliverance (similar to a prayer by Daniel in Daniel 9). This is followed by a section of poetry.

In Baruch 6, the book concludes with a letter, which is comparable to, but different then Jeremiah’s letter recorded in Jeremiah 29. Also, Jeremiah 10:2-15 contains some similar language to Baruch 6.

Some versions of the Bible pull out Baruch 6 and include it as a separate one-chapter book, called the Letter of Jeremiah or the Epistle of Jeremiah.


Wikipedia basic outline of the book of Baruch:

1:1–14 Introduction: "And these are the words...which Baruch...wrote in Babylonia.... And when they heard it they wept, and fasted, and prayed before the Lord."
1:15–2:10 Confession of sins: "[T]he Lord hath watched over us for evil, and hath brought it upon us: for the Lord is just in all his works.... And we have not hearkened to his voice"....
2:11–3:8 Prayer for mercy: "[F]or the dead that are in hell, whose spirit is taken away from their bowels, shall not give glory and justice to the Lord..." (cf. Psalms 6:6/5)
3:9–4:14 A paean for Wisdom: "Where are the princes of the nations,... that hoard up silver and gold, wherein men trust? ... They are cut off, and are gone down to hell,..."
4:5–5:9 Baruch's Poem of Consolation: messages for those in captivity, for the "neighbours of Zion", and for Jerusalem: "You have been sold to the Gentiles, not for your destruction: but because you provoked God to wrath.... [F]or the sins of my children, he [the Eternal] hath brought a nation upon them from afar...who have neither reverenced the ancient, nor pitied children..." "Let no one gloat over me [Jerusalem], a widow, bereft of many, for the sins of my children I am left desolate, for they turned from the law of God". "Look toward the east, O Jerusalem, and see the joy that is coming to you from God".
Chapter 6: Letter of Jeremiah

Baruch audiobook (KJV), 23 minutes.
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This is part of my ongoing series on Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical works:

1 Esdras inc. audiobook link
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2 Esdras (the most relevant book in the Apocrypha?) inc. audiobook link
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1 Maccabees
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2 Maccabees
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3 Maccabees
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4 Maccabees
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Book of Tobit inc. audiobook link
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Apocryphal additions to Esther inc. audiobook link
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Bel and the Dragon (quoted in full, KJV; inc audiobook link)
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Prayer of Azarias and Hymn of the Three Children (quoted in full KJV, inc. audiobook link)
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Book of Judith and the Book of Mormon, inc. audiobook link
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Book of Susanna inc. audiobook link
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Wisdom of Solomon
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Book of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus
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Prayer of Mannases (aka Mannaseh; quoted in full KJV, inc. audiobook link)
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Psalm 151 (quoted in full, NRSV)
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Epistle to the Laodiceans (NT, quoted in full Wycliffe's translation, )
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The Book of Odes - this is an Eastern Orthodox work of limited interest, but included for the sake of completeness.
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Outside the Western and Eastern Orthodox Canon...

The Ethiopian canon. This includes brief info on the books of Sinodos, Ethiopian Clement, Ethiopian Covenant, and Didascalia as well as a list of other works in the canon.
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The Book of Jubilees aka Leptogenesis or Little Genesis
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https://www.gotquestions.org/book-of-Baruch.html

The Catholic Church uses Baruch 3:9-38 as part of its Holy Saturday liturgy during Passiontide (Easter Season). This portion of the book, which speaks of obtaining and desiring wisdom, concludes with a verse referencing Christ’s living among us. The Eastern Orthodox Church uses Baruch among its Old Testament readings during Christmas Eve services. Some early Christian theologians quoted from Baruch, including Thomas Aquinas, St. Clement of Alexandria, and St. Hilary of Poitiers.

The Bible records that Baruch was Jeremiah’s secretary, who wrote the prophet’s words on a scroll (Jeremiah 36:4). Within the Book of Baruch, the central themes are Israel’s disobedience to God, God exiling Jews to Babylon due to their behavior, God’s just action, the need to repent and honor and obey God’s Word, and begging for God’s mercy. In the first chapter of Baruch, it is stated that Baruch read this book aloud to Judah’s King Jeconiah (Baruch 1:3). Jeconiah is also mentioned in the Old Testament as someone who did “evil in the eyes of the Lord,” as did his father, Jehoiakim (2 Kings 25:8).


Encyclopedia of the Bible

This relatively brief book purports to be written by Baruch, the son of Neraiah, who is well known for his duties as secretary to Jeremiah (cf. Jer 36:4, 18, 32). It has appended to it the so-called Letter of Jeremiah (which is often numbered as ch. 6 of Baruch).

1. Content. Baruch is easily divided into the following sections: introduction (1:1-14); confession (1:15-2:10); prayer (2:11-3-8); poetical discourse on wisdom (3:9-4:4); songs of lament and encouragement (4:5-5:9). The introduction speaks of gathered exiles in Babylon who are sending to Jerusalem what money they have been able to collect in order to underwrite various offerings and make possible prayers for the well being of Nebuchadnezzar (and consequently their own). With the money and requests, however, a book of confession designed for periodical reading in the Temple is also to be sent. Thereupon follows the actual confession and penitential prayer. The confession (a declaration not addressed directly to the Lord, whose name occurs only in the third person) begins with an unmistakable allusion to Daniel 9:7f. and centers on the failure and disobedience of the men of Israel and Judah upon whom judgment has justly come from the Lord. This disobedience is regarded as nothing new, but as something which has continued since “the day when the Lord brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt until today” (Baruch 1:19). The prayer itself is a confession of sin and a plea for mercy and deliverance. Several quotations from the Book of Jeremiah are included (2:21=Jer 27:12; 2:23=Jer 7:34; 2:25=Jer 36:30) as well as a number of allusions to other OT writings, particularly Deuteronomy and Daniel. According to the prayer, the prophets were right in their warnings, yet they saw that during the Exile Israel would turn to the Lord (“in the land of their exile they will come to themselves” 2:30). The concluding plea for mercy suggests that the author regards his prayer, expressing the attitude of the people, as the fulfillment of this hope. The poetry on wisdom, which follows, asserts that the God of Israel alone possesses wisdom, but He has disclosed that wisdom to Israel in the form of the Law. Wisdom is thus equated with the Law and the conclusion naturally follows: “Happy are we, O Israel, for we know what is pleasing to God” (4:4). This passage on wisdom seems reminiscent of other wisdom poetry such as Proverbs 1-9 (cf. Job 28). The final section of the book combines lamentation and hope expressed in a passage spoken by personified Jerusalem (4:5-29), containing many allusions to Isaiah, followed by a response of encouragement spoken by the poet (4:30-5:9).

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Here is the complete KJV "Epistle of Jeremiah" aka Letter of Jeremy etc. Chapter 6 of Baruch in some editions.


1 A copy of an epistle, which Jeremy sent unto them which were to be led captives into Babylon by the king of the Babylonians, to certify them, as it was commanded him of God.

2 Because of the sins which ye have committed before God, ye shall be led away captives into Babylon by Nabuchodonosor king of the Babylonians.

3 So when ye be come unto Babylon, ye shall remain there many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations: and after that I will bring you away peaceably from thence.

4 Now shall ye see in Babylon gods of silver, and of gold, and of wood, borne upon shoulders, which cause the nations to fear.

5 Beware therefore that ye in no wise be like to strangers, neither be ye afraid of them, when ye see the multitude before them and behind them, worshipping them.

6 But say ye in your hearts, O Lord, we must worship thee.

7 For mine angel is with you, and I myself caring for your souls.

8 As for their tongue, it is polished by the workman, and they themselves are gilded and laid over with silver; yet are they but false, and cannot speak.

9 And taking gold, as it were for a virgin that loveth to go gay, they make crowns for the heads of their gods.

10 Sometimes also the priests convey from their gods gold and silver, and bestow it upon themselves.

11 Yea, they will give thereof to the common harlots, and deck them as men with garments, [being] gods of silver, and gods of gold, and wood.

12 Yet cannot these gods save themselves from rust and moth, though they be covered with purple raiment.

13 They wipe their faces because of the dust of the temple, when there is much upon them.

14 And he that cannot put to death one that offendeth him holdeth a sceptre, as though he were a judge of the country.

15 He hath also in his right hand a dagger and an ax: but cannot deliver himself from war and thieves.

16 Whereby they are known not to be gods: therefore fear them not.

17 For like as a vessel that a man useth is nothing worth when it is broken; even so it is with their gods: when they be set up in the temple, their eyes be full of dust through the feet of them that come in.

18 And as the doors are made sure on every side upon him that offendeth the king, as being committed to suffer death: even so the priests make fast their temples with doors, with locks, and bars, lest their gods be spoiled with robbers.

19 They light them candles, yea, more than for themselves, whereof they cannot see one.

20 They are as one of the beams of the temple, yet they say their hearts are gnawed upon by things creeping out of the earth; and when they eat them and their clothes, they feel it not.

21 Their faces are blacked through the smoke that cometh out of the temple.

22 Upon their bodies and heads sit bats, swallows, and birds, and the cats also.

23 By this ye may know that they are no gods: therefore fear them not.

24 Notwithstanding the gold that is about them to make them beautiful, except they wipe off the rust, they will not shine: for neither when they were molten did they feel it.

25 The things wherein there is no breath are bought for a most high price.

26 They are borne upon shoulders, having no feet whereby they declare unto men that they be nothing worth.

27 They also that serve them are ashamed: for if they fall to the ground at any time, they cannot rise up again of themselves: neither, if one set them upright, can they move of themselves: neither, if they be bowed down, can they make themselves straight: but they set gifts before them as unto dead men.

28 As for the things that are sacrificed unto them, their priests sell and abuse; in like manner their wives lay up part thereof in salt; but unto the poor and impotent they give nothing of it.

29 Menstruous women and women in childbed eat their sacrifices: by these things ye may know that they are no gods: fear them not.

30 For how can they be called gods? because women set meat before the gods of silver, gold, and wood.

31 And the priests sit in their temples, having their clothes rent, and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing upon their heads.

32 They roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast when one is dead.

33 The priests also take off their garments, and clothe their wives and children.

34 Whether it be evil that one doeth unto them, or good, they are not able to recompense it: they can neither set up a king, nor put him down.

35 In like manner, they can neither give riches nor money: though a man make a vow unto them, and keep it not, they will not require it.

36 They can save no man from death, neither deliver the weak from the mighty.

37 They cannot restore a blind man to his sight, nor help any man in his distress.

38 They can shew no mercy to the widow, nor do good to the fatherless.

39 Their gods of wood, and which are overlaid with gold and silver, are like the stones that be hewn out of the mountain: they that worship them shall be confounded.

40 How should a man then think and say that they are gods, when even the Chaldeans themselves dishonour them?

41 Who if they shall see one dumb that cannot speak, they bring him, and intreat Bel that he may speak, as though he were able to understand.

42 Yet they cannot understand this themselves, and leave them: for they have no knowledge.

43 The women also with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume: but if any of them, drawn by some that passeth by, lie with him, she reproacheth her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken.

44 Whatsoever is done among them is false: how may it then be thought or said that they are gods?

45 They are made of carpenters and goldsmiths: they can be nothing else than the workmen will have them to be.

46 And they themselves that made them can never continue long; how should then the things that are made of them be gods?

47 For they left lies and reproaches to them that come after.

48 For when there cometh any war or plague upon them, the priests consult with themselves, where they may be hidden with them.

49 How then cannot men perceive that they be no gods, which can neither save themselves from war, nor from plague?

50 For seeing they be but of wood, and overlaid with silver and gold, it shall be known hereafter that they are false:

51 And it shall manifestly appear to all nations and kings that they are no gods, but the works of men's hands, and that there is no work of God in them.

52 Who then may not know that they are no gods?

53 For neither can they set up a king in the land, nor give rain unto men.

54 Neither can they judge their own cause, nor redress a wrong, being unable: for they are as crows between heaven and earth.

55 Whereupon when fire falleth upon the house of gods of wood, or laid over with gold or silver, their priests will flee away, and escape; but they themselves shall be burned asunder like beams.

56 Moreover they cannot withstand any king or enemies: how can it then be thought or said that they be gods?

57 Neither are those gods of wood, and laid over with silver or gold, able to escape either from thieves or robbers.

58 Whose gold, and silver, and garments wherewith they are clothed, they that are strong take, and go away withal: neither are they able to help themselves.

59 Therefore it is better to be a king that sheweth his power, or else a profitable vessel in an house, which the owner shall have use of, than such false gods; or to be a door in an house, to keep such things therein, than such false gods; or a pillar of wood in a palace, than such false gods.

60 For sun, moon, and stars, being bright and sent to do their offices, are obedient.

61 In like manner the lightning when it breaketh forth is easy to be seen; and after the same manner the wind bloweth in every country.

62 And when God commandeth the clouds to go over the whole world, they do as they are bidden.

63 And the fire sent from above to consume hills and woods doeth as it is commanded: but these are like unto them neither in shew nor power.

64 Wherefore it is neither to be supposed nor said that they are gods, seeing, they are able neither to judge causes, nor to do good unto men.

65 Knowing therefore that they are no gods, fear them not,

66 For they can neither curse nor bless kings:

67 Neither can they shew signs in the heavens among the heathen, nor shine as the sun, nor give light as the moon.

68 The beasts are better than they: for they can get under a cover and help themselves.

69 It is then by no means manifest unto us that they are gods: therefore fear them not.

70 For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers keepeth nothing: so are their gods of wood, and laid over with silver and gold.

71 And likewise their gods of wood, and laid over with silver and gold, are like to a white thorn in an orchard, that every bird sitteth upon; as also to a dead body, that is cast into the dark.

72 And ye shall know them to be no gods by the bright purple that rotteth upon them: and they themselves afterward shall be eaten, and shall be a reproach in the country.

73 Better therefore is the just man that hath none idols: for he shall be far from reproach.


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Read Baruch online (KJV, but missing some content, see below)
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Baruch-Chapter-1/

New Testament references
Stolen from the following website. (Be warned, the blog in general has some anti-Mormon content.)
https://sovereignjesus.net/bibles-and-v ... testament/

DRB = Douay Rheims Bible, a Roman Catholic version.
* Luke 13:29 cf Baruch 4:37 – “Look, your children are coming, whom you sent away; they are coming, gathered from east and west, at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the glory of God”.

*John 1:14 cf Baruch 3:36-38 – a prophecy of the incarnation of Christ (only in DRB): “This is our God, and there shall no other be accounted of in comparison of him. He found out all the way of knowledge, and gave it to Jacob his servant, and to Israel his beloved. Afterwards he was seen upon earth, and conversed with men (DRB)”. [This does not appear in the KJV translation! - N]

* John 3:13 cf Baruch 3:29 – “Who has gone up into heaven, and taken her, and brought her down from the clouds?”

* 1 Corinthians 10:19-21 cf Baruch 4:7 – “For you provoked the one who made you by sacrificing to demons and not to God”.

* Revelation 18:2 cf Baruch 4:35 – “For fire will come upon her from the Everlasting for many days, and for a long time she will be inhabited by demons”.

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Baruch's comment on prayer of the dead
O Lord Almighty, God of Israel, hear now the prayer of the dead of Israel, the children of those who sinned before you, who did not heed the voice of the Lord their God, so that calamities have clung to us (Baruch 3:4).
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More audiobook links from an LDS channel.

Baruch 29 mins
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New Age Bibles: Urantia, Oahspe, Kolbrin, Oera Linda, Crowley's Book of the Law, a Course in Miracles etc. These works, usually channelled, provide a very different take on spirituality yet are strangely similar to one another. How should we approach these new works and are they just demonic?
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Friday after work, I went to Half Price Books & got a copy of Urantia (PB) with all 4 volumes in it, as well as an extensive index for $10 (9.99) . They had another PB in plastic wrap (possibly new) but wanted $20 for it.

What about Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch & the Greek Apocalypse of Baruch? Both are in my 'The Apocryphal Old Testament' Oxford 1974 HB (I have a newer used PB copy. Most do not know, but Baruch was a prophet & seer, as well as scribe for Jeremiah.

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Lynn wrote: November 19th, 2023, 10:32 pm What about Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch & the Greek Apocalypse of Baruch? Both are in my 'The Apocryphal Old Testament' Oxford 1974 HB (I have a newer used PB copy. Most do not know, but Baruch was a prophet & seer, as well as scribe for Jeremiah.
I' covered the Apocrypha proper early on (i.e. the works in RC and Orthodox, but not many Protestant Bibles) including this one.

I've got 2 and 3 Baruch on a list to do. There are a lot of these extracanonical books (as in hundreds) and I've been busy recently is the short answer. I mainly put the links of all the other books at the end of these posts to try and "hack" the search algorithms on this forum. It has a Google search function which works on a very odd and probably AI basis. These help if anyone's looking.

p.s. Think you got a bargain on your copy of Urantia. It's a monster of a book. Huge! I've never got through all of it. The main interest to many people are the accounts of Jesus' life. I would not consider them factual but they have a very different take.

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