1 Maccabees 2:21
“God forbid that we should forsake the Law, and the ordinances:”
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1 Maccabees 2:21 Context
19Then Mattathias answered, and spake with a loude voice, Though all the nations that are vnder the kings dominion obey him, and fall away euery one from the religion of their fathers, and giue consent to his commandements: 20Yet will I, and my sonnes, and my brethren walke in the couenant of our fathers. 21God forbid that we should forsake the Law, and the ordinances: 22We will not hearken to the kings words, to goe from our religion, either on the right hand, or the left. 23Now when he had left speaking these words, there came one of the Iewes in the sight of all, to sacrifice on the altar, which was at Modin, according to the kings commandement.
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God forbid that we should forsake the law and the ordinances.
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