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2 Maccabees 5:12-14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Maccabees 5:12-14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
12 He commanded his soldiers to cut down relentlessly everyone they met and to kill those who went into their houses.(A) 13 Then there was massacre of young and old, destruction of boys, women, and children, and slaughter of young girls and infants.(B) 14 Within the total of three days eighty thousand were destroyed, forty thousand in hand-to-hand fighting, and as many were sold into slavery as were killed.
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