15 Concerning the Jews, whom he had decided not even to count worthy of burial, but to cast them out to the animals with their infants for the birds to devour, he would make them all equal to citizens of Athens. (WEB)
2 Maccabees 9:15
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3 Maccabees 2:29–31
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3 Maccabees 3:24–26
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3 Maccabees 7:13–15
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