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Read›2 Maccabees›Chapter 14
In 4 translations
- KJV
- Choosing rather to die manfully, than to come into the hands of the wicked, to be abused otherwise than beseemed his noble birth:
- WEB
- choosing rather to die nobly than to fall into the hands of the wicked wretches, and suffer outrage unworthy of his own nobleness.
- DRC
- Choosing to die nobly rather than to fall into the hands of the wicked, and to suffer abuses unbecoming his noble birth.
- LXXE
- choosing rather to die manfully, than to come into the hands of the wicked, to be abused otherwise than beseemed his noble birth:
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br
- εὐγενῶς θέλων ἀποθανεῖν, ἤπερ τοῖς ἀλιτηρίοις ὑποχείριος γενέσθαι, καὶ τῆς ἰδίας εὐγενείας ἀναξίως ὑβρισθῆναι.