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And these are the words of the book which Ieremias sent from Jerusalem to the elders of the exile and to the priests and to the false prophets, a letter to Babylon for the exile, and to all the people —
and take wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands; and be multiplied and do not be diminished.
For thus said the Lord: Let not the false prophets who are among you mislead you, and let not your diviners mislead you; and do not listen to your dreams which you yourselves dream.
For thus said the Lord: When seventy years are about to be fulfilled for Babylon, I will visit you and establish my words upon you, to bring your people back to this place.
Thus said the Lord concerning Achiab and concerning Sedekias: Behold, I am giving them into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall strike them down before your eyes.
And from them a curse shall be taken up among all the exile of Judah in Babylon, saying: May the Lord make you as he made Sedekias, and as Achiab, whom the king of Babylon fried in the fire —
because of the lawlessness they did in Israel, and they committed adultery with the wives of their fellow citizens, and they uttered a word in my name which I did not command them; and I am witness, says the Lord.
The Lord has appointed you priest in place of Jodae the priest, to be overseer in the house of the Lord over every man who prophesies and every man who raves; and you shall put him into the lock-up and into the shackles.
Send to the exile, saying: Thus said the Lord concerning Samaias the Nelamite: Since Samaias prophesied to you, and I did not send him, and he made you trust in unjust things;
therefore thus said the Lord: Behold, I will visit upon Samaias and upon his kindred; and there shall not be a man of theirs in your midst to see the good things which I will do for you; they shall not see them.