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3 Maccabees 5:49
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 Maccabees 5:49
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
49 they thought that this was their last moment of life, the end of their most miserable suspense, and giving way to lamentation and groans they kissed each other, embracing relatives and falling into one another’s arms[a]—parents and children, mothers and daughters, and others with babies at their breasts who were drawing their last milk.
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- 5.49 Gk falling upon their necks
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