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4 Maccabees 18:6-8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 Maccabees 18:6-8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The Mother’s Address to Her Children
6 The mother of seven sons expressed also these principles to her children:(A) 7 “I was a pure virgin and did not go outside my father’s house, but I guarded the rib from which woman was made.[a](B) 8 No seducer corrupted me on a desert plain, nor did the destroyer, the deceitful serpent, defile the purity of my virginity.(C)
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- 18.7 Gk the rib that was built
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