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2 Maccabees 13:5-7 Common English Bible (CEB)

5. That place has a tower seventy-five feet tall and full of ashes with a steep rim on all sides leading into the ashes.

6. Here anyone guilty of temple robbery or other similar crimes is thrown down to their death.

7. In this manner the lawless Menelaus died. He didn’t receive a proper burial.

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