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2 Maccabees 7:20-22
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Maccabees 7:20-22
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 The mother was especially admirable and worthy of honorable memory. Although she saw her seven sons perish within a single day, she bore it with good courage because of her hope in the Lord. 21 She encouraged each of them in the language of their ancestors. Filled with a noble spirit, she reinforced her woman’s reasoning with a man’s courage and said to them,(A) 22 “I do not know how you came into being in my womb. It was not I who gave you life and breath nor I who set in order the elements within each of you.(B)
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