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4 Maccabees 10:15-17 World English Bible (WEB)

15. By the blessed death of my brethren, and the eternal punishment of the tyrant, and the glorious life of the pious, I will not repudiate the noble brotherhood.

16. Invent, O tyrant, tortures; that you may learn, even through them, that I am the brother of those tormented before.

17. When he had said this, the blood-thirsty, and murderous, and unhallowed Antiochus ordered his tongue to be cut out.

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