2 Maccabees 6:24

 

“For it becometh not our age, said he, in any wise to dissemble, whereby many young persons might think that Eleazar, being fourscore years old and ten, were now gone to a strange religion;”
King James Version (KJV)



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Other Translations of 2 Maccabees 6:24

For it becommeth not our age, said he, in any wise to dissemble, whereby many yong persons might thinke, that Eleazar being fourescore yeres old and ten, were now gone to a strange religion.
- King James Version (1611) - Compare to scan of original 2 Maccabees chapter 6

For it doth not become our age, said he, to dissemble: whereby many young persons might think that Eleazar, at the age of fourscore and ten years, was gone over to the life of the heathens:
- Douay Rheims Bible


 


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