3 Maccabees 3:10-12
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
10 And already some of their neighbours and friends and business associates had taken some of them aside privately and were pledging to protect them and to exert more earnest efforts for their assistance.
Ptolemy’s Decree That All Jews Be Arrested
11 Then the king, boastful of his present good fortune, and not considering the might of the supreme God,[a] but assuming that he would persevere constantly in his same purpose, wrote this letter against them:
12 ‘King Ptolemy Philopator to his generals and soldiers in Egypt and all its districts, greetings and good health:
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- 3 Maccabees 3:11 Gk the greatest God
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