2 Maccabees 2:26
Print
For those of us who engage in the strenuous task of abbreviation, it isn’t easy but involves sweat and loss of sleep,
We have taken care for those indeed that are willing to read, that it might be a pleasure of mind: and for the studious, that they may more easily commit to memory: and that all that read might receive profit.
Writing such a summary is a difficult task, demanding hard work and sleepless nights.
For us who have undertaken the labor of making this digest, the task, far from being easy, is one of sweat and of sleepless nights.
For those of us who have undertaken the labor of such abridging, the task has been far from easy but in truth one that involves sweat and sleepless nights,
For us who have undertaken the toil of abbreviating, it is no light matter but calls for sweat and loss of sleep,
For us who have undertaken the toil of abbreviating, it is no light matter but calls for sweat and loss of sleep,
For us who have undertaken the toil of abbreviating, it is no light matter but calls for sweat and loss of sleep,
For us who have undertaken the toil of abbreviating, it is no light matter but calls for sweat and loss of sleep,
For us who have undertaken the toil of abbreviating, it is no light matter but calls for sweat and loss of sleep,
For us who have undertaken the toil of abbreviating, it is no light matter but calls for sweat and loss of sleep,
And soothly we took to us-selves [or to ourselves] that received this work, by cause (or because) of abridging, not (an) easy travail, but soothly a work full of wakings (or of watching) and [of] sweat.
Common English Bible (CEB) Copyright © 2011 by Common English Bible; Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA) Public Domain (Why are modern Bible translations copyrighted?); Good News Translation (GNT) Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition) © 1992 American Bible Society. All rights reserved. For more information about GNT, visit www.bibles.com and www.gnt.bible.; New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE) Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the New American Bible, revised edition © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. ; New Catholic Bible (NCB) Copyright © 2019 by Catholic Book Publishing Corp. All rights reserved.; New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised (NRSVA) New Revised Standard Version Bible: Anglicised Edition, copyright © 1989, 1995 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.; New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition (NRSVACE) New Revised Standard Version Bible: Anglicised Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993, 1995 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.; New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.; New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVUE) New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.; Revised Standard Version (RSV) Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1946, 1952, and 1971 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.; Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE) The Revised Standard Version of the Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1965, 1966 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.; Wycliffe Bible (WYC) 2001 by Terence P. Noble