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3 Maccabees 1:15-17
Revised Standard Version
3 Maccabees 1:15-17
Revised Standard Version
15 “But since this has happened,” the king[a] said, “why should not I at least enter, whether they wish it or not?”
Jewish Resistance to Ptolemy
16 Then the priests in all their vestments prostrated themselves and entreated the supreme God[b] to aid in the present situation and to avert the violence of this evil design, and they filled the temple with cries and tears; 17 and those who remained behind in the city were agitated and hurried out, supposing that something mysterious was occurring.
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- 3 Maccabees 1:15 Gk he
- 3 Maccabees 1:16 Gk the greatest God
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