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4 Maccabees 5:26-28
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 Maccabees 5:26-28
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
26 He has permitted us to eat what will be most suitable for our lives,[a] but he has forbidden us to eat meats that would be contrary to this.(A) 27 It would be tyrannical for you to compel us not only to transgress the law but also to eat in such a way that you may deride us for eating defiling foods, which are most hateful to us. 28 But you shall have no such occasion to laugh at me,
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