Jeremiah 45

Jeremiah 45 is the forty-fifth chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains prophecies attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. This chapter closes the section comprising chapters 26–44 with the message that the prophetic word will survive through Baruch. In the New Revised Standard Version, this chapter is described as "a word of comfort to Baruch". Biblical commentator A. W. Streane calls it "a rebuke and a promise to Baruch".

Text

The original text was written in Hebrew. This chapter, the shortest in the Book of Jeremiah, is divided into 5 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis, the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets, Aleppo Codex, Codex Leningradensis.
There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus, Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Marchalianus.

Parashot

The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex. Jeremiah 45 is a part of the "Sixteenth prophecy " in the section of Prophecies interwoven with narratives about the prophet's life . : open parashah; : closed parashah.

Verse numbering

The order of chapters and verses of the Book of Jeremiah in the English Bibles, Masoretic Text, and Vulgate, in some places differs from that in the Septuagint according to Rahlfs or Lancelot [Charles Lee Brenton|Brenton]. The following table is taken with minor adjustments from Brenton's Septuagint, page 971.
The order of Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint/Scriptural Study based on Alfred Rahlfs' Septuaginta differs in some details from Joseph Ziegler's critical edition in Göttingen LXX. Swete's Introduction mostly agrees with Rahlfs' edition.

Hebrew, Vulgate, English	Rahlfs' LXX
45:1-5	51:31-35
38:1-28	45:1-28

Verse 1

"The fourth year of Jehoiakim" is 605 BCE. This part should have followed chapter 36. 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".

Verse 5

The New International Version offers, as a more manageable translation:
Streane suggests that "the age is one in which must not expect great things for himself, but must be content if he escapes with his bare life."

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