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3 Maccabees 3:28

In 2 translations

WEB
Whoever informs against the Jews, besides receiving the property of the person charged, shall be presented with two thousand drachmas from the royal treasury, shall be made free, and shall be crowned.a drachma was about a day’s pay for an agricultural laborer
LXXE
Whoever shall inform against the Jews, besides receiving the property of the person charged, shall be presented with two thousand drachmæ from the royal treasury, shall be made free, and shall be crowned.

Original-language editions

LXX-Br
Μηνύειν δέ τὸν βουλόμενον, ἐφʼ ᾧ τὴν οὐσίαν τοῦ ἐμπίπτοντος ὑπὸ τὴν εὐθύναν λήψεται, καὶ ἐκ τοῦ βασιλικοῦ ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς δισχιλίας, καὶ τῆς ἐλευθερίας τεύξεται καὶ στεφανωθήσεται.

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