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Baruch: An Amanuensis (Copyist) of Jeremiah Jeremiah 32:12–16

and I gave this deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who were signing the purchase agreement and all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard. / In their sight I instructed Baruch, / “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Take these deeds—both the sealed copy and the open copy of the deed of purchase—and put them in a clay jar to preserve them for a long time.

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Baruch: An Amanuensis (Copyist) of Jeremiah Jeremiah 36:4–32

So Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah, and at the dictation of Jeremiah, Baruch wrote on a scroll all the words that the LORD had spoken to Jeremiah. / Then Jeremiah commanded Baruch, “I am restricted; I cannot enter the house of the LORD; / so you are to go to the house of the LORD on a day of fasting, and in the hearing of the people you are to read the words of the LORD from the scroll you have written at my dictation. Read them in the hearing of all the people of Judah who are coming from their cities.

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Baruch: An Amanuensis (Copyist) of Jeremiah Jeremiah 43:3–6

Rather, Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us to deliver us into the hands of the Chaldeans, so that they may put us to death or exile us to Babylon!” / So Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces disobeyed the command of the LORD to stay in the land of Judah. / Instead, Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took the whole remnant of Judah, those who had returned to the land of Judah from all the nations to which they had been scattered,

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Baruch: An Amanuensis (Copyist) of Jeremiah Jeremiah 45:1, 2

This is the word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch son of Neriah when he wrote these words on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah: / “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch:

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