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2 Maccabees 6:5-7
Wycliffe Bible
2 Maccabees 6:5-7
Wycliffe Bible
5 Also the altar was full of unleaveful (or of unlawful) things, which were forbidden by laws (or by the law).
6 Soothly neither sabbaths were kept, neither solemn days of (the) fathers were kept, neither simply, neither openly, [or plainly], any man acknowledged him(self) (to be) a Jew.
7 Forsooth they were led with bitter need in the day of the king’s birth to sacrifices. And when (the) holy things of Liber, that is Bacchus, either a false god, which the heathen men called (the) god of wine, were made solemnly, [or were hallowed], they were crowned with ivy, and were constrained for to go about with Liber (or unto Bacchus).
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