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[Paralipomena 6:1-3] Eved-Melekh prayed outside the city, and a messenger took his right hand and brought him to Baruk in the tomb.
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Baruk and Eved-Melekh saw one another, wept, and embraced.
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[6:4-10] Baruk saw the sixty-six-year figs and sang that the One who preserved the fruit could also preserve flesh and life according to His command.
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The figs became a sign that grief could be turned to joy and corruption need not have the final word.
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[6:11-18] Baruk and Eved-Melekh prayed for a way to send news to Yirmeyahu in Bavel.
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A messenger announced that an eagle would come at the hour of light and carry Baruk's message.
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The message commanded the people to separate themselves from Bavel and prepare for return.
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[6:19-25] Baruk wrote to Yirmeyahu and the dispersed, recalling the Covenant with Avraham, Yitzchaq, and Yaaqov and the deliverance from Mitsrayim.
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He warned that those who refused the appointed word would make themselves strangers both to Yerushalayim and Bavel.
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[7:1-7] The eagle arrived speaking in an Adam-like voice, and Baruk entrusted to it the letter and fifteen figs.
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[7:8-11] Baruk charged the eagle not to imitate the raven of Noach but the dove that returned with a sign, and to fly straight in the strength of Elohim.
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[7:12-19] The eagle reached Bavel and waited until Yirmeyahu came out with people carrying a corpse for burial.
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The eagle called Yirmeyahu and the people to hear the letter, descended upon the corpse, and the dead one revived as a sign so the people would believe.
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[7:20-24] The people remembered the Elohim who appeared to the fathers in the wilderness, and Yirmeyahu read Baruk's letter aloud.
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The people wept and asked what they must do to re-enter their city; Yirmeyahu told them to obey the word sent to them.
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[7:25-31] Yirmeyahu wrote back that Baruk had been spared from seeing the affliction of the people in Bavel.
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He described people executed under Nevukhadnetzar and the added grief of hearing captives cry toward a foreign power for mercy.
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He remembered the appointed times formerly celebrated in Yerushalayim and wept over the exile.
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[7:32-37] He asked Baruk and Eved-Melekh to pray that the people would hear his instruction.
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He recalled the demand of the captors for songs of Tziyon and the refusal to sing the song of Yahuah as though it belonged to a foreign land.
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The eagle carried Yirmeyahu's reply back, and Yirmeyahu distributed the preserved figs among the sick and continued teaching the people to separate from the pollutions of Bavel.