“And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the Lord in the Lord’s house.”
The context: 'In the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, a fast was proclaimed.' The fast provides the occasion for public reading. God works within existing religious institutions.
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