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2 Maccabees 4:8-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Maccabees 4:8-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
8 promising the king through a petition three hundred sixty talents of silver and from another source of revenue eighty talents.(A) 9 In addition to this he promised to pay one hundred fifty more if permission were given to establish by his authority a gymnasium and a body of youth for it and to enroll the people of Jerusalem as the Antiochenes in Jerusalem.(B) 10 When the king assented and Jason[a] came to office, he at once shifted his compatriots over to the Greek way of life.(C)
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