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2 Maccabees 13:6-8
Revised Standard Version
2 Maccabees 13:6-8
Revised Standard Version
6 There they all push to destruction any man guilty of sacrilege or notorious for other crimes. 7 By such a fate it came about that Menela′us the lawbreaker died, without even burial in the earth. 8 And this was eminently just; because he had committed many sins against the altar whose fire and ashes were holy, he met his death in ashes.
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