[2] 4 Baruch uses a simple and fable-like style, with speech-making animals, fruit that never rots, and an eagle sent by the Lord that revives the dead.
Jeremiah is instructed by the Lord to miraculously hide in the earth the vestments of the high priest of the Temple.
Abimelech (= Ebedmelech the Ethiopian of Jeremiah 38:7) falls asleep for 66 years and awakens next to a basket of figs, preserved perfectly fresh.
They want to communicate with Jeremiah, who is still in Babylon, so Baruch prays to the Lord, who sends him an eagle.
It finds Jeremiah officiating at a funeral and alights on the corpse, bringing it back to life, thus announcing the end of the exile.
The Israelites return to Jerusalem, but only those men who have no foreign wives are allowed to pass the Jordan.