Hi there. This is Mary DeMuth and this is Pray Every Day where I have the joy and privilege of praying you through the Bible verse by verse. Happy Christmas Eve Eve.

Tomorrow is my daughter Sophie's birthday. Yes, she's a New Year's Eve, Christmas Eve baby. Yes. So anyway, don't mind me blundering over my words today, but I do hope that this finds you with joy in your heart and knowing that God is near.

Today I'm reading from Jeremiah 36 verses 17 through 32 in the World English Bible. That'll finish up, Jeremiah 36. And this is what it says.

They asked Baruch saying, tell us now. how did you write all these words at his mouth?

Then Burak answered them, he dictated all these words to me with his mouth,

and I wrote them down with ink in the book.

Then the princess said to Burak, you and Jeremiah go hide.

Don't let anyone know where you are.

They went into the king, into the court, but they had laid

up the scroll in the room of Elashama the scribe. Then they told all the words in the hearing of the

king, so the king sent Yehudi to get the scroll, and he took it out of the room of Elashama, the scribe.

Yehudi read it in the hearing of the king and in the hearing of all the

princes who stood beside the king. Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the

ninth month and there was a fire in the brazier burning before him. When Yehudi

had read the three or four columns the king cut it with the penknife and cast it

into the fire that was in the brazier until all the scroll

was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier. The king and his servants who heard all these

words were not afraid and didn't tear their garments. Moreover, El Nathan and Delea and Gamaria

had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll,

but he would not listen to them.

The king commanded Jeromeil, the king's son, and Sariah the son of Azrael, and Shalamaya,

the son of Abdel, to arrest Barak, the scribe, and Jeremiah the prophet, but Yahweh hid them.

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