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Jeremiah 36:32 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 32. 32Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.
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Quick Meaning
The replacement scroll preserves the earlier words and openly reports that many similar words were added.
Read It With
- Jeremiah 36:27–32
Read Jeremiah 36:32 with 36:27–32. By itself, “Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah” can be detached from the speaker, addressee, date, imperial horizon, poetic movement, or outcome that gives it force. The complete unit establishes: Jeremiah dictates again, Baruch writes a replacement, and many similar words are added.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within the same chapter, this unit advances from “The Burned Scroll Receives a Judgment Oracle” into “Baruch Rewrites the Scroll with Added Words.” Its non-interchangeable movement is: Jeremiah dictates again, Baruch writes a replacement, and many similar words are added. This verse's placement is specific: The replacement scroll preserves the earlier words and openly reports that many similar words were added.
Follow the Context
- The unit begins at 36:32 with the speech, scene, image, or date named in its title.
- Jeremiah dictates again, Baruch writes a replacement, and many similar words are added.
- At 36:32 the movement reaches its response or transition before the next unit.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
The rewritten scroll does not identify which words were added or settle the relationship of MT and LXX Jeremiah.
What Remains True
The narrative openly portrays replacement and expansion after royal destruction. In Jeremiah 36:32, that bounded truth is carried through this verse's role: The replacement scroll preserves the earlier words and openly reports that many similar words were added.
How It Can Shape Life
- Acknowledge literary growth without inventing a complete redaction history. This verse directs that response through its exact role: The replacement scroll preserves the earlier words and openly reports that many similar words were added.
Teach It Back
Explain Jeremiah 36:32's precise role in Jeremiah 36:32: The replacement scroll preserves the earlier words and openly reports that many similar words were added. State how “Baruch Rewrites the Scroll with Added Words” controls the line, keep this uncertainty visible—The verse makes growth visible but does not reveal every addition, author, stage, or ordering decision in the final book.—trace role to contextual meaning to enduring truth to application, and reject one use the verse does not authorize.
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Read Jeremiah 36:32 — Baruch Rewrites the Scroll with Added WordsSources used for this Verse Lens
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Where care is needed
Readings differ over historical reconstruction, composition, rhetoric, theology, and later reception. The preferred reading follows this complete unit while preserving the limit: The verse makes growth visible but does not reveal every addition, author, stage, or ordering decision in the final book.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Jeremiah 36:32, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Jeremiah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2; fixed commit
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a critical apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Jer.xml, OSIS 36:32
Open the fixed Hebrew Jeremiah file ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Jeremiah with Translator, Textual, and Study Notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; official eBible PDF distribution, NET Bible Second Edition; official PDF accessed 2026
Supports: Verse-level controls for Hebrew, syntax, older KJV language, dates, names, textual problems, and material translation alternatives.
Exact location: Official NET Bible Jeremiah PDF, pp. 1258-1459, translator, study, and textual notes attached to Jeremiah 36:32
Open the official NET Jeremiah PDF ↗modern scholarly book course
Jeremiah: Summary, Outline, Background, Introductory Issues, Themes, and Bible in the World
Terence E. Fretheim and Michael Chan
Enter the Bible, Luther Seminary, current public course accessed 2026
Supports: Reader-oriented historical, literary, theological, and pastoral synthesis with ancient-to-modern limits.
Exact location: Enter the Bible Jeremiah course, Outline and Themes: restoration, new covenant, field, Baruch scroll, siege, and fall; applied to Jeremiah 36:32
Open the Enter the Bible Jeremiah course ↗open university study guide series
Jeremiah and Ezekiel: Jeremiah Parts 1-3 Study Guides
Joel S. Baden and Jacqueline Vayntrub
Yale Bible Study, 2024
Supports: Current university-level literary-historical synthesis and explicit composition questions.
Exact location: Yale Bible Study, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, Jeremiah Part 3 study guide, pp. 1-6: Jeremiah 36, Baruch, scroll rewriting, composition, and final form; applied to Jeremiah 36:32
Open the Yale Jeremiah and Ezekiel course ↗peer reviewed open access text critical article
The Text-Critical and Exegetical Value of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Johann Cook
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 72.4, article a3280, 2016
Supports: Controls the shorter and differently ordered Old Greek Jeremiah, Qumran Hebrew evidence, and competing edition-history proposals without making one reconstruction certain.
Exact location: Cook, 'The text-critical and exegetical value of the Dead Sea Scrolls,' section 'The books of Jeremiah (4QJerd),' HTS 72.4 (2016), article pp. 3-4; applied to Jeremiah 36:32
Open Cook on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Jeremiah ↗