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2 Maccabees 14:39-41
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Maccabees 14:39-41
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
39 Nicanor, wishing to exhibit the enmity that he had for the Jews, sent more than five hundred soldiers to arrest him, 40 for he thought that by arresting[a] him he would do them an injury. 41 When the troops were about to capture the tower and were forcing the door of the courtyard, they ordered that fire be brought and the doors burned. Being surrounded, Razis[b] fell upon his own sword,
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