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4 Maccabees 18:18-20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 Maccabees 18:18-20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
18 For he did not forget to teach you the song that Moses taught, which says, 19 ‘I kill, and I make alive; this is your life and the length of your days.’ ”(A)
20 O bitter was that day—and yet not bitter—when that bitter tyrant of the Greeks quenched fire with fire in his cruel caldrons and in his burning rage brought those seven sons of the daughter of Abraham to the catapult and back again to more[a] tortures,
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- 18.20 Other ancient authorities read to all his
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