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4 Maccabees 5:2-4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 Maccabees 5:2-4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 ordered the guards to seize each and every Hebrew and to compel them to eat pork and food sacrificed to idols. 3 If any were not willing to eat defiling food, they were to be broken on the wheel and killed. 4 When many persons had been rounded up, one[a] man, Eleazar by name, leader of the flock, was brought[b] before the king. He was a man of priestly family, learned in the law, advanced in age, and known to many in the tyrant’s court because of his long career.(A)
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