Jeremiah 27:1

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KJV

¹ At the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah. . .

NIV

¹ Early in the reign of Zedekiah^[a] son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

[a] A few Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac (see also 27:3,12 and 28:1); most Hebrew manuscripts Jehoiakim (Most Septuagint manuscripts do not have this verse.)

JPS Tanakh

¹ At the beginning of the reign of King Jehoiakim son of Josiah of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

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If בראשית in Genesis 1:1 necessarily means "In the beginning, . . ."

​In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth

does Jeremiah 27:1, which starts in the same way, mean

In the beginning, Jehoiakim reigned

by the same logic? This point was made by Rashi — See Bereshith in construct form.

See also Jeremiah 28:1 — this verse has been used in Christadelphian controversy to contradict Rashi's teaching about Bereshith.

See also Wilfred Lambert on the translation of Genesis 1:1, Translation of Genesis 1:1.

— Bruce