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Read›4 Maccabees›Chapter 9
In 2 translations
- WEB
- Make the attempt, then, O tyrant. If you put us to death for our religion, don’t think that you harm us by torturing us.
- LXXE
- Make the attempt, then, O tyrant; and if thou puttest us to death for our religion, think not that thou harmest us by torturing us.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br
- Πείραζε γαροῦν τύραννε· καὶ τὰς ἡμῶν ψυχὰς εἰ θανατώσεις διὰ τὴν εὐσέβειαν, μὴ νομίσῃς ἡμᾶς βλάπτειν βασανίζων.