1 Maccabees 7:15-17

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁵Alcimus^[a] spoke peaceable words to them and swore this oath to them, ‘We will not seek to injure you or your friends.’ ¹⁶So they trusted him; but he seized sixty of them and killed them in one day, in accordance with the word that was written,

¹⁷‘The flesh of your faithful ones and their blood
they poured out all around Jerusalem,
and there was no one to bury them.’

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1 Maccabees 7:15 Gk He

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition (NRSVACE)

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