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2 Maccabees 6:1-2
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
2 Maccabees 6:1-2
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
The Suppression of Judaism
6 Not long after this, the king sent an Athenian[a] senator[b] to compel the Jews to forsake the laws of their ancestors and no longer to live by the laws of God; 2 also to pollute the temple in Jerusalem and to call it the temple of Olympian Zeus, and to call the one in Gerizim the temple of Zeus-the-Friend-of-Strangers, as did the people who lived in that place.
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- 2 Maccabees 6:1 Other ancient authorities read Antiochian
- 2 Maccabees 6:1 Or Geron an Athenian
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