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26 After much urging on his part, she undertook to persuade her son. 27 But, leaning close to him, she spoke in their native language as follows, deriding the cruel tyrant: ‘My son, have pity on me. I carried you for nine months in my womb, and nursed you for three years, and have reared you and brought you up to this point in your life, and have taken care of you.[a] 28 I beg you, my child, to look at the heaven and the earth and see everything that is in them, and recognize that God did not make them out of things that existed.[b] And in the same way the human race came into being.

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  1. 2 Maccabees 7:27 Or have borne the burden of your education
  2. 2 Maccabees 7:28 Or God made them out of things that did not exist

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