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4 Maccabees 16:10-12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 Maccabees 16:10-12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
10 Alas, I who had so many and beautiful children am a widow and alone, with many sorrows.[a] 11 And when I die, I shall have none of my sons to bury me.”
12 Yet that holy and God-fearing mother did not wail with such a lament for any of them, nor did she dissuade any of them from dying, nor did she grieve as they were dying.
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- 16.10 Or much to be pitied
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