And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How did you write all these words at his mouth?
And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How did you write all these words at his mouth?
And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?
And questioning Baruch, they said, Say now, how did you put all these words down in writing from his mouth?
And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?
They asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How did you write all these words at his mouth?
And they asked Baruch, saying, tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?
How didst thou write all these words? - At his mouth? - So the text should be pointed. They wished to know whether he had not copied them, or whether he wrote as Jeremiah prophesied.
The scroll might have been drawn up by Baruch from memoranda of his own without the prophet's direct authority. The princes therefore did not ask from curiosity, but to obtain necessary information.