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4 Maccabees 16:11-13
Revised Standard Version
4 Maccabees 16:11-13
Revised Standard Version
11 Nor when I die, shall I have any of my sons to bury me.”
12 Yet the sacred and God-fearing mother did not wail with such a lament for any of them, nor did she dissuade any of them from dying, nor did she grieve as they were dying, 13 but, as though having a mind like adamant and giving rebirth for immortality to the whole number of her sons, she implored them and urged them on to death for the sake of religion.
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