The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex.[6] Jeremiah 45 is a part of the "Sixteenth prophecy (Jeremiah 40-45)" in the section of Prophecies interwoven with narratives about the prophet's life (Jeremiah 26-45). {P}: open parashah; {S}: closed parashah.
{S} 45:1-5 {P}
Verse numbering
The order of chapters and verses of the Book of Jeremiah in the English Bibles, Masoretic Text (Hebrew), and Vulgate (Latin), in some places differs from that in the Septuagint (LXX, the Greek Bible used in the Eastern Orthodox Church and others) according to Rahlfs or Brenton. The following table is taken with minor adjustments from Brenton's Septuagint, page 971.[7]
The order of Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint/Scriptural Study (CATSS) based on Alfred Rahlfs' Septuaginta (1935) differs in some details from Joseph Ziegler's critical edition (1957) in Göttingen LXX. Swete's Introduction mostly agrees with Rahlfs' edition (=CATSS).[7]
Hebrew, Vulgate, English
Rahlfs' LXX (CATSS)
45:1-5
51:31-35
38:1-28
45:1-28
Verse 1
The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the instruction of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying, (NKJV)[8]
"The fourth year of Jehoiakim" is 605 BCE.[9] This part should have followed chapter 36.[9] Volz found the trace of Baruch's involvement in forming chapter 1-45 from three major sections: 1-25, 26–36, and 37–45, as each section concludes with "a reference to the dictation of a scroll" (25:1–14; chapter 36; chapter 45).[10]
Wherever you go I will let you escape with your life.[12]
Streane suggests that "the age is one in which [Baruch] must not expect great things for himself, but must be content if he escapes with his bare life."[3]
O'Connor, Kathleen M. (2007). "23. Jeremiah". In Barton, John; Muddiman, John (eds.). The Oxford Bible Commentary (first (paperback) ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. 487–533. ISBN978-0199277186. Retrieved February 6, 2019.