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Read›2 Maccabees›Chapter 3
In 4 translations
- KJV
- Then it would have pitied a man to see the falling down of the multitude of all sorts, and the fear of the high priest being in such an agony.
- WEB
- Then it was pitiful to see the multitude prostrating themselves all mixed together, and the anxiety of the high priest in his great distress.
- DRC
- For the expectation of the mixed multitude, and of the high priest who was in an agony, would have moved any one to pity.
- LXXE
- Then it would have pitied a man to see the falling down of the multitude of all sorts, and the fear of the high priest, being in such an agony.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br
- Ἐλεεῖν δʼ ἦν τὴν τοῦ πλήθους παμμιγῆ πρόπτωσιν, τήν τε τοῦ μεγάλως διαγωνιῶντος ἀρχιερέως προσδοκίαν.