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2 Maccabees 9:5-6
Revised Standard Version
2 Maccabees 9:5-6
Revised Standard Version
5 But the all-seeing Lord, the God of Israel, struck him an incurable and unseen blow. As soon as he ceased speaking he was seized with a pain in his bowels for which there was no relief and with sharp internal tortures— 6 and that very justly, for he had tortured the bowels of others with many and strange inflictions.
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