10 For example, two women were brought in for having circumcised their children. These, when they had led them publicly around the city with the babes hung from their breasts, they threw down headlong from the wall. (WEB)
2 Maccabees 6:10
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4 Maccabees 4:24–26
24 When he could by no means destroy by his decrees the obedience to the law of the nation, but saw all his threats and punishments without effect, (WEB) 25 for even women, because they continued to circumcise their children, were flung down a precipice along with them, k… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 1:59–61
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Ezekiel 23:9–11
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2 Maccabees 7:3–5
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1 Maccabees 2:45–47
45 And Mattathias and his friends went around and pulled down the altars. (WEB) 46 They forcibly circumcised the boys who were uncircumcised, as many as they found in the coasts of Israel. (WEB) 47 They pursued the arrogant, and the work prospered in their hand. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 5:1–3
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