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2 Maccabees 7:1-2
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
2 Maccabees 7:1-2
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
The Martyrdom of Seven Brothers
7 It happened also that seven brothers and their mother were arrested and were being compelled by the king, under torture with whips and thongs, to partake of unlawful swine’s flesh. 2 One of them, acting as their spokesman, said, “What do you intend to ask and learn from us? For we are ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our ancestors.”
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