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4 Maccabees 5:2-4
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
4 Maccabees 5:2-4
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
2 ordered the guards to seize each and every Hebrew and to compel them to eat pork and food sacrificed to idols. 3 If any were not willing to eat defiling food, they were to be broken on the wheel and killed. 4 When many people had been rounded up, one man, Eleazar by name, leader of the flock, was brought[a] before the king. He was a man of priestly family, learned in the law, advanced in age, and known to many in the tyrant’s court because of his philosophy.[b]
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- 4 Maccabees 5:4 Or was the first of the flock to be brought
- 4 Maccabees 5:4 Other ancient authorities read his advanced age
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised (NRSVA)
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