4 Maccabees 13:9-11

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⁹ “Brothers, let us die like brothers for the sake of the law; let us imitate the three youths in Assyria who despised the same ordeal^[a] of the furnace.^{(A) 10} Let us not be cowardly in the demonstration of our piety.” ¹¹ While one said, “Courage, brother,” another said, “Bear up nobly,”