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2 Maccabees 6:2-4
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
2 Maccabees 6:2-4
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
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.
3 Harsh and utterly grievous was the onslaught of evil. 4 For the temple was filled with debauchery and revelling by the Gentiles, who dallied with prostitutes and had intercourse with women within the sacred precincts, and besides brought in things for sacrifice that were unfit.
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