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2 Maccabees 7:2-4
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
2 Maccabees 7:2-4
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
2 One of them, acting as their spokesman, said, ‘What do you intend to ask and learn from us? For we are ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our ancestors.’
3 The king fell into a rage, and gave orders to have pans and cauldrons heated. 4 These were heated immediately, and he commanded that the tongue of their spokesman be cut out and that they scalp him and cut off his hands and feet, while the rest of the brothers and the mother looked on.
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