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Read›2 Maccabees›Chapter 6
In 4 translations
- KJV
- Neither was it lawful for a man to keep sabbath days or ancient fasts, or to profess himself at all to be a Jew.
- WEB
- A man could neither keep the Sabbath, nor observe the feasts of their ancestors, nor so much as confess himself to be a Jew.
- DRC
- And neither were the sabbaths kept, nor the solemn days of the fathers observed, neither did any man plainly profess himself to be a Jew.
- LXXE
- Neither was it lawful for a man to keep sabbath days or ancient feasts, or to profess himself at all to be a Jew.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br
- Ἦν δʼ οὔτε σαββατίζειν, οὔτε πατρῴους ἑορτὰς διαφυλάττειν, οὔτε ἁπλῶς Ἰουδαῖον ὁμολογεῖν εἶναι.