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4 Maccabees 10:1-3
Revised Standard Version
4 Maccabees 10:1-3
Revised Standard Version
The Torture of the Third and Fourth Brothers
10 When he too had endured a glorious death, the third was led in, and many repeatedly urged him to save himself by tasting the meat. 2 But he shouted, “Do you not know that the same father begot me and those who died, and the same mother bore me, and that I was brought up on the same teachings? 3 I do not renounce the noble kinship that binds me to my brothers.”[a]
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- 4 Maccabees 10:3 Some ancient authorities add verse 4: So if you have any instrument of torture, apply it to my body; for you cannot touch my soul, even if you wish.”
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