3 Maccabees 1:21-23
Revised Standard Version
21 Various were the supplications of those gathered there because of what the king was profanely plotting. 22 In addition, the bolder of the citizens would not tolerate the completion of his plans or the fulfillment of his intended purpose. 23 They shouted to their fellows to take arms and die courageously for the ancestral law, and created a considerable disturbance in the holy place;[a] and being barely restrained by the old men and the elders,[b] they resorted to the same posture of supplication as the others.
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- 3 Maccabees 1:23 Gk the place
- 3 Maccabees 1:23 Other ancient authorities read priests
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