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3 Maccabees 5:8-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 Maccabees 5:8-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
8 that he avert the evil plot against them and in a glorious manifestation rescue them from the fate now prepared for them.(A) 9 So their entreaty ascended fervently to heaven.
10 Hermon, however, when he had drugged the pitiless elephants until they had been filled with a great abundance of wine and satiated with frankincense, presented himself at court early in the morning to report to the king about these preparations.(B)
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