18Then Baruch, answering, said, He said all these things to me by word of mouth, and I put them down with ink in the book.
19Then the rulers said to Baruch, Go and put yourself in a safe place, you and Jeremiah, and let no man have knowledge of where you are.
20Then they went into the open square to the king; but the book they put away in the room of Elishama the scribe; and they gave the king an account of all the words.
21So the king sent Jehudi to get the book, and he took it from the room of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi gave a reading of it in the hearing of the king and all the rulers who were by the king's side.
22Now the king was seated in the winter house, and a fire was burning in the fireplace in front of him.
23And it came about that whenever Jehudi, in his reading, had got through three or four divisions, the king, cutting them with his penknife, put them into the fire, till all the book was burned up in the fire which was burning in the fireplace.
24But they had no fear and gave no signs of grief, not the king or any of his servants, after hearing all these words.
