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4 Maccabees 11:1-3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 Maccabees 11:1-3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The Torture of the Fifth and Sixth Brothers
11 When he, too, died, after being cruelly tortured, the fifth leaped up, saying, 2 “I will not refuse, tyrant, to be tortured for the sake of virtue. 3 I have come of my own accord so that by murdering me you will incur punishment from the heavenly justice for even more crimes.
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