^36:15They said to him, “Please sit down and read it to us.” So Baruch sat down and read it to them.²⁸^36:16When they had heard it all,²⁹ they expressed their alarm to one another.³⁰ Then they said to Baruch, “We must certainly give the king a report about everything you have read!”³¹

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Footnotes

28 Or “ ‘to us personally’ … to them personally”; Heb “ ‘in our ears’ … in their ears.” Elsewhere this has been rendered “in the hearing of” or “where they could hear.” All three of those idioms sound unnatural in this context. The mere personal pronoun seems adequate.
29 Heb “all the words.”
30 According to 808 פָּחַד Qal.1 and 40 אֶל 3.a, this is an example of the “pregnant” use of a preposition where an implied verb has to be supplied in the translation to conform the normal range of the preposition with the verb that is governing it. The Hebrew text reads: “they feared unto one another.” translates “they turned in dread to each other.” The translation adopted seems more appropriate in this context.
31 Heb “We must certainly report to the king all these things.” Here the word דְּבָרִים (dévarim) must mean “things” (cf. 183 דָּבָר IV.3) rather than “words” because a verbatim report of all the words in the scroll is scarcely meant. The present translation has chosen to use a form that suggests a summary report of all the matters spoken about in the scroll rather than the indefinite “things.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And they said to him, “Sit down and read it.” So Baruch read it to them. When they heard all the words, they turned one to another in fear. And they said to Baruch, “We must report all these words to the king.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

They said to him, “Sit down, please, and read it to us.”

So Baruch read it to them. When they heard all these words, they looked at each other in fear and said to Baruch, “We must report all these words to the king.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

They said to him, “Sit down and read it in our hearing.” So Baruch read it in their hearing.

When they had heard all the words, they turned to each other in fear and said to Baruch, “We must surely tell the king all these things.”

NLTNew Living Translation

“Sit down and read the scroll to us,” the officials said, and Baruch did as they requested.

When they heard all the messages, they looked at one another in alarm. “We must tell the king what we have heard,” they said to Baruch.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And they said to him, “Sit please and read it aloud in our hearing.” So Baruch read aloud in their hearing. And then, the moment of their hearing all the words, they turned to one another in alarm and they said to Baruch, “We must certainly report all these words to the king!”

KJV 1900King James Version

And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears. Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.

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