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Read›3 Maccabees›Chapter 3

3 Maccabees 3:1

In 2 translations

WEB
On discovering this, so incensed was the wicked king, that he no longer confined his rage to the Jews in Alexandria. Laying his hand more heavily upon those who lived in the country, he gave orders that they should be quickly collected into one place, and most cruelly deprived of their lives.
LXXE
On discovering this, so incensed was the wicked king, that he no longer confined his rage to the Jews in Alexandria. Laying his hand more heavily upon those who lived in the country, he gave orders that they should be quickly collected into one place, and most cruelly deprived of their lives.

Original-language editions

LXX-Br
Ἃ καὶ μεταλαμβάνων ὁ δυσσεβὴς ἐπι τοσοῦτον ἐχόλησεν, ὥστε οὐ μόνον τοῖς κατʼ Ἀλεξάνδρειαν διοργίζεσθαι, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῖς ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ βαρυτέρως ἐναντιωθῆναι, καὶ προστάξαι σπεύσαντας συναγαγεῖν πάντας ἐπιτοαυτὸ, καὶ χειρίστῳ μόρῳ τοῦ ζῇν μεταστῆσαι.

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