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20 The officials put the scroll in the room of Elishama, the royal secretary, for safekeeping.[a] Then they went to the court and reported everything[b] to the king.[c]

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  1. Jeremiah 36:20 tn Heb “they deposited.” For the usage of the verb here see BDB 824 s.v. פָּקַד Hiph.2.b and compare the usage in Jer 37:21, where it is used for “confining” Jeremiah in the courtyard of the guardhouse.
  2. Jeremiah 36:20 tn Heb “all the matters.” Cf. the translator’s note on v. 16.
  3. Jeremiah 36:20 tn Both here and in the next verse the Hebrew has “in the ears of” before “the king” (and also before “all the officials”). As in v. 15, these words are not represented in the translation due to the awkwardness of the idiom in contemporary English (see the translator’s note on v. 15).