12 Won’t you respect my kindly admonition and have pity on your own years? (WEB) 13 For bear in mind that if there is any power which watches over this religion of yours, it will pardon you for all transgressions of the law which you commit through compulsion.” (WEB) 14 While the tyrant incited him in this manner to the unlawful eating of meat, Eleazar begged permission to speak. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 5:12–14
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