1 then, indeed, vehemently swayed with emotion, he commanded to bring others of the adult Hebrews, and if they would eat of the unclean thing, to let them go when they had eaten; but if they objected, to torment them more grievously. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 8:1
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4 Maccabees 8:10–12
10 Won’t you consider this: that if you disobey, there will be nothing left for you but to die in torture?” (WEB) 11 When he had said this, he ordered the instruments of torture to be brought forward, that fear might prevail upon them to eat unclean meat. (WEB) 12 When the spearman… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 5:1–3
1 The tyrant Antiochus, therefore, sitting in public state with his assessors upon a certain lofty place, with his armed troops standing in a circle around him, (WEB) 2 commanded his spearbearers to seize every one of the Hebrews, and to compel them to taste swine’s fle… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 4:25–26
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4 Maccabees 11:15–17
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2 Maccabees 6:20–22
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3 Maccabees 4:12–14
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4 Maccabees 7:24–25
24 This is why even boys, trained with the philosophy of religious reasoning, have conquered still more bitter tortures; (WEB) 25 for when the tyrant was manifestly vanquished in his first attempt, in being unable to force the old man to eat the unclean thing, (WEB)
2 Maccabees 7:3–5
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