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4 Maccabees 10:1-3
Common English Bible
4 Maccabees 10:1-3
Common English Bible
The third brother’s torture and response
10 When the second brother had also endured a heroic death, the third brother was brought forward. Many people urged him again and again to taste the pork in order to save himself. 2 He shouted out in response: “Don’t you know that I come from the same father as those who have just died, that the same mother gave birth to me, and that I was raised with the same teaching? 3 I won’t deny these dignified family ties!”[a]
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- 4 Maccabees 10:3 Some manuscripts add 10:4 Apply whatever torture devices you have to my body; you can’t reach my will, no matter how much you wish.
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