4 When these were immediately heated, he gave orders to cut out the tongue of him who had been their spokesman, and to scalp him, and to cut off his extremities, with the rest of his brothers and his mother looking on. (WEB) 5 And when he was utterly maimed, the king gave orders to bring him to the fire, being yet alive, and to fry him in the pan. And as the smoke from the pan spread far, they and their mother also exhorted one another to die nobly, saying this: (WEB) 6 “The Lord God sees, and in truth is entreated for us, as Moses declared in his song, which witnesses against the people to their faces, saying, ‘And he will have compassion on his servants.’” (WEB)
2 Maccabees 7:4–6
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4 Maccabees 17:9–11
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4 Maccabees 8:1–2
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4 Maccabees 10:16–18
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4 Maccabees 16:14–16
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4 Maccabees 10:4–6
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2 Maccabees 6:27–29
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