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The Septuagint version of Jeremiah also includes the Book of Baruch and the Epistle of Jeremiah.

Jerome's Prologue to Jeremiah says he excluded them: " And the Book of Baruch, his scribe, which is neither read nor found among the Hebrews, we have omitted, standing ready, because of these things, for all the curses from the jealous, to whom it is necessary for me to respond through a separate short work.

And I suffer because you think this.

Otherwise, for the benefit of the wicked, it was more proper to set a limit for their rage by my silence, rather than any new things written to provoke daily the insanity of the envious.

" But the Canon of Trent included them as " Ieremias cum Baruch " ( Jeremiah with Baruch ), being the Epistle or Letter of Jeremiah in the Vulgate.