8 No destroyer of the desert or ravisher of the plain injured me, nor did the destructive, deceitful snake make plunder of my chaste virginity. I remained with my husband during the time of my maturity. (WEB) 9 When these, my children, arrived at maturity, their father died. He was blessed! For having sought out a life of fertility in children, he was not grieved with a period of loss of children. (WEB) 10 He used to teach you, when yet with you, the law and the prophets. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 18:8–10
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4 Maccabees 17:5–7
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