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Read›4 Maccabees›Chapter 2
In 2 translations
- WEB
- It doesn’t allow cutting down the fruit trees of an enemy, but preserves them from the destroyers, and collects their fallen ruins.
- LXXE
- It alloweth not to cut down the cultivated herbage of an enemy, but preserveth it from the destroyers, and collecteth their fallen ruins.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br
- μηδὲ δενδροτομῶν τὰ ἥμερα τῶν πολεμίων φυτὰ, τὰ δὲ τῶν ἐχθρῶν τοῖς ἀπολέσασιν διασώζων, καὶ τὰ πεπτωκότα συνεγείρων.