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Read›2 Maccabees›Chapter 9

2 Maccabees 9:14

In 4 translations

KJV
That the holy city (to the which he was going in haste to lay it even with the ground, and to make it a common buryingplace,) he would set at liberty:
WEB
that the holy city, to which he was going in haste to lay it even with the ground and to make it a common graveyard, he would declare free.Gr. build.
DRC
And the city to which he was going in haste to lay it even with the ground, and to make it a, common buryingplace, he now desireth to make free.
LXXE
That the holy city (to the which he was going in haste, to lay it even with the ground, and to make it a common burying place,) he would set at liberty:

Original-language editions

LXX-Br
τὴν μὲν ἁγίαν πόλιν ἣν σπεύδων παρεγίνετο ἰσόπεδον ποιῆσαι, καὶ πολυάνδριον οἰκοδομῆσαι, ἐλευθέραν ἀναδεῖξαι·

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