Jeremiah 36:18
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New International Version (©2011)
"Yes," Baruch replied, "he dictated all these words to me, and I wrote them in ink on the scroll."

New Living Translation (©2007)
So Baruch explained, "Jeremiah dictated them, and I wrote them down in ink, word for word, on this scroll."

English Standard Version (©2001)
Baruch answered them, “He dictated all these words to me, while I wrote them with ink on the scroll.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then Baruch said to them, "He dictated all these words to me, and I wrote them with ink on the book."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Baruch said to them, "At his dictation. He recited all these words to me while I was writing on the scroll in ink."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Baruch answered them, "Yes, Jeremiah dictated all these words to me, and I wrote them in the scroll with ink."

NET Bible (©2006)
Baruch answered, "Yes, they came from his own mouth. He dictated all these words to me and I wrote them down in ink on this scroll."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Baruch answered, "He dictated everything to me, and I wrote it on the scroll in ink."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.

American King James Version
Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.

American Standard Version
Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Baruch said to them: With his mouth he pronounced all these words as if he were reading to me: and I wrote in a volume with ink.

Darby Bible Translation
And Baruch said unto them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.

English Revised Version
Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.

World English Bible
Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.

Young's Literal Translation
And Baruch saith to them, 'From his mouth, he pronounceth unto me all these words, and I am writing on the book with ink.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

36:9-19 Shows of piety and devotion may be found even among those, who, though they keep up forms of godliness, are strangers and enemies to the power of it. The princes patiently attended the reading of the whole book. They were in great fear. But even those who are convinced to the truth and importance of what they hear, and are disposed to favour those who preach it, often have difficulties and reserves about their safety, interest, or preferment, so that they do not act according to their convictions, and try to get rid of what they find troublesome.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 18. - He pronounced, etc.; rather, He kept dictating... while I wrote with ink, etc. The addition of the last clause suggests (and was, perhaps, intended to do so) that Baruch's function was simply mechanical.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then Baruch answered them,.... At once, without any hesitation, plainly and fully:

he pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth; that is, the Prophet Jeremiah delivered by word of mouth, not the substance only of this roll, but the express words of it, and everyone of them, and that clearly and distinctly, without any hesitation, or premeditation; by which it is plain it was by the Spirit of the Lord he did it; neither matter nor words were Baruch's, but were exactly as they were delivered:

and I wrote them with ink in the book; as they saw with their eyes, and which was the manner of writing with the Jews so early; Baruch had no further concern in this matter than to provide pen, ink, and parchment, and to make use of them as he did, just as the prophet dictated and directed him.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

18. his mouth—Baruch replies it was by the oral dictation of the prophet; Jer 36:2 accords with this view, rather than with the notion that Jeremiah repeated his prophecies from manuscripts.

ink—his specification of the "ink" implies: I added nothing save the hand, pen, and ink.

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Jeremiah's Scroll Read in the King's House
…17And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How did you write all these words at his mouth? 18Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book. 19Then said the princes to Baruch, Go, hide you, you and Jeremiah; and let no man know where you be.

Jeremiah 36:4 So Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah, and while Jeremiah dictated all the words the LORD had spoken to him, Baruch wrote them on the scroll.
Jeremiah 36:27 After the king burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah's dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
Jeremiah 36:32 So Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and as Jeremiah dictated, Baruch wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.
Jeremiah 45:1 When Baruch son of Neriah wrote on a scroll the words Jeremiah the prophet dictated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, Jeremiah said this to Baruch: