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Read›4 Maccabees›Chapter 4
In 2 translations
- WEB
- The priests, with the women and children, asked God to throw his shield over the holy, despised place,
- LXXE
- And the priests, with the women and children, having supplicated God to throw his shield over the holy, despised place,
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br
- Τῶν δὲ ἱερέων μετὰ γυναικῶν καὶ παιδίων ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ ἱκετευσάντων τὸν Θεὸν ὑπερασπίσαι τοῦ ἱεροῦ καταφρονουμένου τόπου.