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2 Maccabees 6:1-2
Common English Bible
2 Maccabees 6:1-2
Common English Bible
Judaism is outlawed
6 Shortly afterward the king sent out an Athenian elder[a] to force the Jews to turn away from their ancestral laws and stop living according to God’s laws. 2 He was also ordered to defile the temple in Jerusalem and to rename it for Zeus Olympus, and to rename the temple in Mount Gerizim for Zeus, Friend of Strangers,[b] just as the people living there requested.
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- 2 Maccabees 6:1 Or Geron, an Athenian
- 2 Maccabees 6:2 Gk Xenios
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