4 Maccabees 15:15-17

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¹⁵ She watched the flesh of her children being consumed by fire, their toes and fingers scattered^[a] on the ground, and the flesh of the head to the chin exposed like masks.

¹⁶ O mother, tried now by more bitter pains than even the birth pangs you suffered for them! ¹⁷ O woman, who alone gave birth to such perfect piety!