16. and when they had heard all its words, they turned to each other in alarm and said to Baruch, “We have to tell the king all these things.”
17. Then they asked Baruch: “Tell us, please, how did you come to write down all these words? Was it at his dictation?”
18. “Yes, he would dictate all these words to me,” Baruch answered them, “while I wrote them down with ink in the scroll.”
19. The princes said to Baruch, “Go into hiding, you and Jeremiah; do not let anyone know where you are.”