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What Is Scroll in the Bible?

Object

A book of long ago: a long strip of leather or of ancient paper, written on and rolled around a rod.

Today

In synagogues the Law is still read from scrolls.

Where it appears in the Bible

Luke 4:17; Jeremiah 36:2

What the Bible says

Luke 4:17

And the book of Isaias the prophet was delivered unto him. And as he unfolded the book, he found the place where it was written:

Jeremiah 36:2

Take thee a roll of a book, and thou shalt write in it all the words that I have spoken to thee against Israel and Juda, and against all the nations from the day that I spoke to thee, from the days of Josias even to this day.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.

Source: RAE, “rollo”; Luke 4:17

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