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3 Maccabees 6:6-8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 Maccabees 6:6-8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 The three companions in Babylon who had voluntarily surrendered their lives to the flames so as not to serve vain things, you rescued unharmed, even to a hair, moistening the fiery furnace with dew and turning the flame against all their enemies.(A) 7 Daniel, who through envious slanders was thrown down into the ground to lions as food for wild animals, you brought up to the light unharmed.(B) 8 And Jonah, wasting away in the belly of a huge, sea-born monster, you, Father, watched over and restored[a] unharmed to all his family.(C)
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- 6.8 Other ancient authorities read rescued and restored; others, mercifully restored
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