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2 Maccabees 4:8-10
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
2 Maccabees 4:8-10
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
8 promising the king at an interview[a] three hundred sixty talents of silver, and from another source of revenue eighty talents. 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 citizens of Antioch. 10 When the king assented and Jason[b] came to office, he at once shifted his compatriots over to the Greek way of life.
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- 2 Maccabees 4:8 Or by a petition
- 2 Maccabees 4:10 Gk he
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