1 Maccabees 1:63
“Wherfore they chose rather to die, that they might not be defiled with meats, and that they might not profane the holy Couenant: So then they died.”
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1 Maccabees 1:63 Context
61And they hanged the infants about their neckes, and rifled their houses, and slewe them that had circumcised them. 62Howbeit, many in Israel were fully resolued and confirmed in themselues, not to eate any vncleane thing. 63Wherfore they chose rather to die, that they might not be defiled with meats, and that they might not profane the holy Couenant: So then they died. 64And there was very great wrath vpon Israel.
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Wherefore the rather to die, that they might not be defiled with meats, and that they might not profane the holy covenant: so then they died.
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