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4 Maccabees 12:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 Maccabees 12:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 but if you yield to persuasion you will be my friend and a leader in the government of the kingdom.”(A) 6 When he had thus appealed to him, he sent for the boy’s mother to show compassion on her who had been bereaved of so many sons and to influence her to persuade the surviving son to obey and save himself.(B) 7 But after his mother had exhorted him in the Hebrew language, as we shall tell a little later,(C)
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