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2 Maccabees 6:27-29
Good News Translation
2 Maccabees 6:27-29
Good News Translation
27 If I die bravely now, it will show that I deserved my long life. 28 It will also set a good example of the way young people should be willing and glad to die for our sacred and respected laws.
As soon as he said these things, he went[a] off to be tortured, 29 and the very people who had treated him kindly a few minutes before, now turned against him, because they thought he had spoken like a madman.
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- 2 Maccabees 6:28 went; some manuscripts have was dragged.
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