4 Maccabees 13:20-22

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²⁰ There the brothers spent the same length of time and were shaped during the same period of time, and growing from the same blood and through the same life, they were brought to the light of day. ²¹ When they were born after an equal time of gestation, they drank milk from the same fountains. From such embraces brotherly loving souls are nourished, ²² and they grow stronger from this common nurture and daily companionship and from both general education and our discipline in the law of God.