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2 Maccabees 13:5-7
Revised Standard Version
2 Maccabees 13:5-7
Revised Standard Version
5 For there is a tower in that place, fifty cubits high, full of ashes, and it has a rim running around it which on all sides inclines precipitously into the ashes. 6 There they all push to destruction any man guilty of sacrilege or notorious for other crimes. 7 By such a fate it came about that Menela′us the lawbreaker died, without even burial in the earth.
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