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21 Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi (A)read it in the hearing of the king as well as in the hearing of all the officials who stood beside the king. 22 Now the king was sitting in the (B)winter house in the (C)ninth month, with a fire burning in the brazier before him. 23 And it happened that when Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king cut it with a scribe’s knife and (D)threw it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll [a]was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

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  1. Jeremiah 36:23 Lit came to an end