Read it in the quote is literally “read it in our ears,” which is the basis for Good News Translation “read the scroll to us.”

So Baruch read it to them is rendered “So Baruch did” by Good News Translation.

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on Jeremiah. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2003. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .