2 Baruch 78

Related ancient text — scholarly reference

Extra-canonical text — not LDS scripture and not in the KJV Apocrypha. Provided as scholarly reference for parallel literature of the Second Temple period and the early Christian era. Read with discernment; the Apostle Jude quotes 1 Enoch and Paul knew this material, but inclusion here is for study, not doctrine.

1These are the words of that epistle which Baruch the son of Neriah sent to the nine and a half tribes, which were across the river Euphrates, in which these things were written.

2Thus saith Baruch the son of Neriah to the brethren carried into captivity:

3"Mercy and peace." I bear in mind, my brethren, the love of Him who created us, who loved us from of old, and never hated us, but above all educated us.

4And truly I know that behold all we the twelve tribes are bound by one bond, inasmuch as we are born from one father.

5Wherefore I have been the more careful to leave you the words of this epistle before I die, that ye may be comforted regarding the evils which have come upon you, and that ye may be grieved also regarding the evil that has befallen your brethren; and again, also, that ye may justify His judgement which He has decreed against y

Also cited in commentary

1 Nephi 20 — Isaiah 48 — The Refining Furnace, the For-Mine-Own-Sake, and the Command to Depart
- How this sits in the literature of its time
1 Nephi 22 — Nephi's Exposition — The Scattering, the Gentile Nursing, and the Mighty One of Israel
- How this sits in the literature of its time
2 Nephi 6 — Jacob Opens the Temple Sermon — Isaiah 49 Re-Read for the New World
- How this sits in the literature of its time
2 Nephi 10 — Reconcile Yourselves — Jacob's Second Day and the Land of Promise
- How this sits in the literature of its time
2 Nephi 25 — Nephi's Exposition — The Plainness, Six Hundred Years, the Name of Christ, and Grace After All We Can Do
- How this sits in the literature of its time
2 Nephi 28 — False Churches in the Latter Days — The Lull of Carnal Security, the Few Stripes, the Line upon Line
- How this sits in the literature of its time
2 Nephi 29 — A Bible! A Bible! — The Marvelous Work, the Two Records, and the Lord Speaks to All Nations
- How this sits in the literature of its time
Alma 45 — Taken Up, Even as Moses — Alma's Last Prophecy and Helaman's Charge
- The first cracks — pride after deliverance
Mormon 5 — Without Hope, Yet Faithful — Mormon Takes Up the Sword Again, and Writes the Record for Us and for Israel's Return
- The appeal to the Gentiles

Cross-references are extracted from the project’s chapter essays — every link below points back into the original prose.

Public-domain text (R.H. Charles 1913 and equivalents). These works are not canonical, but several were widely read in antiquity and one (1 Enoch) is quoted by name in Jude 1:14–15. Useful for understanding the doctrinal landscape from which the apostles and earliest saints taught.