The book of Baruch is recognized as
Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman
Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox
Churches. In some Bibles, Baruch
chapter 6 is listed as a separate book called
The Letter of Jeremiah, reflecting its separation
from Baruch in some copies of the
Greek Septuagint.

1 These are the words of the book which
Baruch the son of Nerias, the son of
Maaseas, the son of Sedekias, the son of
Asadias, the son of Helkias, wrote in Babylon,

2 in the fifth year, in the seventh day of
the month, atthe time when the Chaldeans
took Jerusalem and burned it with fire.

3 Baruch read the words of this book in
the hearing of Jechonias the son of Joakim
king of Judah, and in the hearing of all the
people who came to hear the book,

4 and in the hearing of the mighty men,
and of the kings’ sons, and in the hearing
of the elders, and in the hearing of all the
people, from the least to the greatest, even
of all those who lived at Babylon by the
river Sud.

5 Then they wept, fasted,† and prayed
before the Lord.

6 They also made a collection of money
according to every man’s ability;

7 and they sent it to Jerusalem to Joakim
the high priest, the son of Helkias, the
son of Salom, and to the priests and to all
the people who were found with him at
Jerusalem,

8 at the same time when he took the
vessels of the house of the Lord, that had
been carried out of the temple, to return
them into the land of Judah, the tenth day
of Sivan—silver vessels which Sedekias the
son of Josias king of Judah had made,

9 after Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon
had carried away Jechonias, the princes,
the captives, the mighty men, and the
people of the land from Jerusalem, and
brought them to Babylon.

10 And they said: Behold, we have sent
you money; therefore buy with the money
burnt offerings, sin offerings, and incense,
and prepare an oblation, and offer upon
the altar of the Lord our God;