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be not afraid of him, saith the Lord: for I am speakest falsely: the Lord our God hath not sent
with you, to saue you, and to deliuer you from his thee to say, Goe not into Egypt to dwell there,
hand, 12 And I will graunt you mercie that he may 3 But Baruch ye sonne of Neriah prouoketh thee
haue compassion vpon you, and he shall cause against vs, for to deliuer vs into the hand of the
you to dwell in your owne land. 13 But if ye say, Caldeans, that they might slay vs, and cary vs
We will not dwell in this land, neither heare the away captiues into Babel. So Iohanan the sonne
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voyce of the Lord your God, 14 Saying, Nay, but we of Kareah, and all the captaines of the hoste, and
will goe into the land of Egypt, where we shall see all the people obeied not the voyce of the Lord,
no warre, nor heare the sounde of the trumpet, to dwell in the lande of Iudah. 5 But Iohanan
nor haue hunger of bread, and there will we the sonne of Kareah, and all the captaines of
dwell, 15 (And nowe therefore heare the worde of the hoste tooke all the remnant of Iudah, that
the Lord, ye remnant of Iudah: thus sayeth the were returned from al nations, whither they had
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Lord of hostes the God of Israel, If ye set your bene driuen, to dwel in ye land of Iudah: Euen
faces to enter into Egypt, and goe to dwell there) men and women, and children, and the Kinges
16 Then the sworde that ye feared, shall take you daughters, and euery person, that Nebuzar-adan
there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, for the chiefe steward had left with Gedaliah the
the which ye care, shall there hang vpon you in sonne of Ahikam, ye sonne of Shaphan, and
Egypt, and there shall ye die. 17 And all the men Ieremiah the Prophet, and Baruch the sonne of
that set their faces to enter into Egypt to dwell Neriah. 7 So they came into the lande of Egypt:
there, shall die by ye sword, by the famine and for they obeied not the voice of the Lord: thus
bythepestilence, andnoneofthemshallremaine came they to Tahpanhes. Then came the worde
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nor escape from the plague, that I will bring vpon of the Lord vnto Ieremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,
them. 18 For thus saith the Lord of hostes the God 9 Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them
of Israel, As mine anger and my wrath hath bene in the claie in the bricke kill, which is at the entrie
powred foorth vpon the inhabitants of Ierusalem: of Pharaohs house in Tanpanhes in ye sight of the
so shall my wrath be powred foorth vpon you, men of Iudah, 10 And say vnto them, Thus sayeth
when ye shall enter into Egypt, and ye shall be the Lord of hostes the God of Israel, Beholde, I
a detestation, and an astonishment, and a curse will sende and bring Nebuchad-nezzar the King
and a reproche, and ye shall see this place no of Babel my seruant, and will set his throne vpon
more. 19 O ye remnant of Iudah, the Lord hath these stones that I haue hid, and he shall spread
said concerning you, Goe not into Egypt: knowe his pauilion ouer them. 11 And when he shall
certeinely that I haue admonished you this day. come, he shall smite the land of Egypt: such as
20 Surely ye dissembled in your hearts When ye are appoynted for death, to death, and such as
sent me vnto the Lord your God, saying, Pray are for captiuitie, to captiuitie, and such as are
for vs vnto the Lord our God, and declare vnto for the sword to the sword. 12 And I wil kindle
vs euen according vnto al that the Lord our God a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt, and he
shall say, and we will doe it. 21 Therefore I haue shall burne them and carie them away captiues,
this day declared it you, but you haue not obeyed and he shall aray himself with the land of Egypt,
the voyce of the Lord your God, nor any thing for as a shepheard putteth on his garment, and shall
the which he hath sent me vnto you. 22 Nowe depart from thence in peace. 13 He shall breake
therefore, knowe certeinely that ye shall die by also ye images of Beth-shemesh, that is in the
the sworde, by the famine, and by the pestilence, lande of Egypt, and the houses of the gods of the
in the place whither ye desire to goe and dwell. Egyptians shall he burne with fire.

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1 Nowe when Ieremiah had made an ende of 1 The worde that came to Ieremiah concerning
speaking vnto ye whole people all the wordes all the Iewes, which dwell in the lande of Egypt,
of the Lord their God, for the which the Lord and remained at Migdol and at Tahpanhes, and
their God had sent him to them, euen all these at Noph, and in the coutry of Pathros, saying,
wordes, Then spake Azariah the sonne of Hosha- 2 Thus sayeth the Lord of hostes the God of
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iah, and Iohanan the sonne of Kareah, and all Israel, Yee haue seene all the euill that I haue
the proude men, saying vnto Ieremiah, Thou brought vpon Ierusalem, and vpon all the cities