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Read›4 Maccabees›Chapter 8
In 2 translations
- WEB
- When he had said this, he ordered the instruments of torture to be brought forward, that fear might prevail upon them to eat unclean meat.
- LXXE8:9
- Have mercy, then, upon your own selves, whom I, although an enemy, compassionate for your age and comeliness.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br8:9
- Κατελεήσατε οὖν ἑαυτοὺς, οὕς καὶ ὁ πολέμιος ἔγωγε καὶ τῆς ἡλικίας καὶ τῆς εὐμορφίας οἰκτείρομαι.
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