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2 Maccabees 13:7-9
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
2 Maccabees 13:7-9
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
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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9 The king with barbarous arrogance was coming to show to the Jews things far worse than those that had been done[a] in his father’s time.
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- 2 Maccabees 13:9 Or the worst of the things that had been done
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
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